Journey of Worship

We began a new three week mini-series this week. The Bible has much to say about prayer and the God we pray to. Unfortunately, we develop these boxes in life that we put prayer in, and ultimately put God in too. When we put God in a box, we forget how powerful and awesome He is, and how much He desires for us to trust Him with amazing and wonderful things. As a result, we pray these anemic and pitiful prayers and miss out on seeing God do some amazing things.

Beyond the Lord’s Prayer, the New Testament is full of great prayer examples of how we (as Christ-followers) can be praying for God’s will on earth and for our fellow Christ-followers. Join us as we expand our vision and discover what’s outside the box.

For the first week, we looked at the prayer Paul prayed for the church in Ephesians 3:14-21 and were reminded of the power of the love of God at work in His people.

Service Flow: (Song links go to AmazonMp3 where the songs are $0.99 and DRM free)

Welcome/Announcements/Greeting
Series Intro/Call to Worship (Isaiah 25:9)
As It Is in Heaven (Maher/Cash)
Everlasting God (Brown/Riley)
My Savior’s Love (Gabriel)
Prayer (Ephesians 2:18)
Offering
The Power of Your Love (Bullock)
Drama
Message
Communion w/ How Deep the Father’s Love for Us (Townend)
Prayer for One Another to expect a miracle of God’s love in us
I’m Putting on the Love of the Lord (Ode 3/Schreiner) 
Dismissal (Ephesians 3:20-21)

It was another great morning together as we gathered to celebrate, remember, and worship the living God. For these next three weeks, we are having different leaders and emerging leaders within our congregation bring the message. This week was a young man who has been involved with our creative and drama ministries, college ministry, and other leadership things. He did a great job and handled the Scripture well and with energy and enthusiasm.

I had the great opportunity to lead communion this week, and had another young college age guy help me who is also a part of our worship team and youth ministries. It’s great to see different people being equipped and mentored to do the work of ministry.

It was great to be able once again worship and lead the congregation. We again had some challenges in practice, but God again used our humble offering to allow His glory to come and draw people unto Himself. We sang together and prayed together with energy and presence. It’s great to be able to get to do what I do. May the Lord continue to use us to draw His people unto Himself as we meet together.

Thanks for stopping by. If you were there, please leave a comment and let me know how God spoke to you.

For more on what other churches did this past week, check out Fred’s Sunday Setlists blog entry.

Related posts:

1. Sunday Setlist: 3/1/09
2. Sunday Setlist: 7/26/09
3. Sunday Setlist: 7/19/09

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