Journey of Worship

We finished up the 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.

This week, we looked at the prayer Paul prayed for the church in Philippians 1:3-11 and were reminded of the important role of praying for those we walk the journey with so that the love of God can be made real in us.

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

Welcome/Announcements
Missions Spotlight
Call to Worship (Psalm 134:1-3)
Holy Is the Lord (Tomlin/Giglio)
Ancient of Days (Sadler/Harvill)
Prayer (using this story) 
Your Name (Baloche/Packiam)
Offering (using the Doxology interspersed with Matthew 6:19-21)
Time of giving thanks
Doxology
Message
Prayer for missionaries going out
Prayer for those who have a need
Our God Saves (Baloche/Brown)
Dismissal (Revelation 1:5b-6)

It was a good conclusion to the three week mini-series “What’s Outside the Box?” As we’ve been in the height of summer, we’ve seen some attendance fluctuation as people are camping and traveling.

I had been at the National Worship Leader Conference all week, and came back into town to practice with the team and do the service on Sunday. On Saturday, I woke up feeling pretty bad physically. As a result, I was kind of foggy and lethargic moving through practice, and not exactly looking forward to Sunday.

Fortunately, God works in spite of and through our physical limitations. I didn’t feel real connected to the service, but folks did. We had some great times of prayer for one another as part of the service. The message focused on the importance of backing up our partners in prayer as we live life and do ministry. As with the past three weeks, we had one of leadership team members, Kirby, do the message. He did a great job.

The scripture reading interspersed with the Doxology was something I picked up from an article in Worship Leader Magazine. It had been a while since we had done the Doxology, so it was good to come back to that. We really try to make it a priority to connect the act of giving as an expression of worship to the King.

The last song was lead by one of my team members, Tony. He did a great job leading and connecting the song to the overall service. I’m trying to be more intentional about releasing people to lead.

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: 11/15/09
2. Sunday Setlist: 7/12/09
3. Sunday Setlist: 7/19/09

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