What up! Long time since I blog but here I am…

Setlist:

Home……………………………..……E

Battle Cry……………………..…..C#m

Song of the Redeemed………F#m

Jesus Paid it All…………………..Bbmj

Never let me go………………….Fmj

I enjoyed singing “home” by Daughtry, I thought it was a good pick to open up and the lyrics are simply clear and encouraging. Now, Battle Cry on the other hand did not go as expected. The song is amazing both lyrically and musically but I think there are number of reasons why we should stay away from songs that require a bigger band: 

1st, we are a new congregation and we are still figuring out our audience.

2nd, we do not have a bass player.

3rd, our electric guitarist/keyboardist/vocals is also our sound guy.

4th, we only have one hour to set up the stage with instruments and sound, which also makes it difficult to warm up. So as a result of this I think for the moment being we will try to stick to songs that have melodies that people can easily grasp and sing to and do not require a great amount of sound that we currently do not have…

On a second note I got to play the “flying V” and got to sing/lead with distortion for the first time ever in my years of worship experience (yea, someone had to step out of his comfortable zone)…Finally, I think Jesus paid it all created a memorable atmosphere of worship reminding us with its lyrics that Jesus has paid our debt and we owe nothing. There is no way on earth that anyone could ever repay Christ for His sacrifice, nothing is equivalent to what He did for us at the cross and that is why He is the perfect offering and that is why we worship Him, because all he asks in return is for us “to believe in his name”.

Thanks everyone out there for hanging on with us as we develop this worship ministry.