Our goal was to guide people towards the theme of Christ's sufficient righteousness in light of our great sin. It seemed as though people were prepared to hear the good news after reflecting on last week's message. Response to the themes of the initial songs, the scripture readings, etc. seemed to be quite enthusiastic. Then the message - Steve, thanks for opening up the passage for us and showing us the light and joy of the Gospel. After that message, I was glad that Steve had insisted that we sing. During the sermon, Arise came to mind - it seemed to capture the core points of the sermon and provide the joyful response that I think many in the congregation were experiencing.
Thanks to everyone on the team for being flexible and ready to jump in at that last minute.
We had a ministry conflict that made it so that we couldn't have the lyrics projected for that last song (by no fault of our projectionist). So we had to wing it. But I think it was familiar enough that, with some cues, people were able to participate.
I'd love to hear if anyone has any thoughts on the execution of the theme for the morning - where it worked, where it could have been more effective. Leave a comment and let me know.
A few technical items - great to have Doug back. Thanks, Doug for playing through pain.
It was fun to have both the set and the aux perc. It offers some fun possibilities for arranging and let's us work with some additional layering that we can't always get otherwise.
Sorry for trying to start on a wrong key for Here is Love. I started in singing where I knew the note should have been but I had thrown a capo on, for some reason. Once I remembered the capo issue, we squared it away. That whole deal was a big distraction for my own heart. I hope it wasn't as much for others. I need to remember to take notes about my own directions during the rehearsal. I forgot a couple items this morning that I had planned. Not good. These are the types of distractions that are easily avoidable and I didn't take the few steps needed to get there.
We experienced the difference in playing style between Doug and Dick this morning right from the get-go during practice. Doug, thanks for being willing to tone it down just a bit so that we wouldn't have too much on the drum front. If you add the oomph that you took off your stroke and toss it onto Dick's typical stroke, we'd probably have a roughly even tone no matter who was playing! Maybe we need to think Doug a little less, typically, and Dick a little more when it comes to volume and presence.
I think that's all I've really got for the morning. Again, any thoughts regarding theme and execution of it are welcome.
Thanks all.
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Tim,
I don't think the snafoo with Here is Love was a distraction for very many - as soon as the song gets really going, everybody is focusing on the song, not the mistake. Sorry about not coming in with you right away when you did get it going. I feel like we should have taken more notes this morning, too - we forgot some of the layering you had wanted to do and weren't doing as good a job as we could have with following you.
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