Week 2: Reflecting all of God's light
Status: A work in progress - working it through with my worship cycle team
Please keep in the forefront of your mind, that INSPIRING Worship is the aim, which ultimately means that our task, as servants of our congregations, is to find that which will be inspiring for them, not just copying the 'church next door'.
Worship Service outline
| Prelude | Reflector | Teen dance group |
| Welcome & Call to worship | Spiel (as dance group take their places with congregation) | Worship Leader |
| Worship | Bless the Lord (Jeff Deyo) | Worship Band & Powerpoint |
| Holy, Holy, Holy | Worship Band | |
| There is nothing like | ||
| Prayer | Congregational member | |
| Giving/JC Lakers | Worship Band | |
| Campaign Video update | DVD | |
| Worship | ||
| Prayer for the Word of God | Congregation to join in prayer for Pastor's message | Congregational/Worship Team member |
| Message | "Reflecting all of God's light" | Pastor |
| Response | More love, more power | Worship Band |
| Send out | Reflector | Worship Band |
Details
Music Prelude - Setting the scene
[To set the scene of how God has revealed all of who is He to us in different ways, and we are to grow in our ability to reflect Him to others.]
Teen Dance group - they will perform a dance they themselves have created to the music of Planet Shaker's song, "Reflector"
Welcome - Call to worship Spiel
[Verbally enforce the message just given by the children for us to celebrate the God who is the Creator, Saviour and Indweller of us all, and prepare ourselves to receive teaching this week to help us grow to reflect Him in all His glory]
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Worship
Bless the Lord by Jeff Deyo
Great song highlighting the many aspects of God's nature and how He has revealed Himself to His people and interacts with us.
Holy, Holy, Holy
Old hymn speaking of the 3 fold revelation of God to us
There is nothing like - Hillsong
Contemporary song speaking of the 3-fold revelation of God - Each verse starts with a different revelation of God - Father, true and merciful ... Jesus, Saviour, glorified ... Holy Spirit, gift of God ...
Prayer - Thanking God for making Himself known to us
Worship Team member/congregational member to say,
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Giving & children to JC Lakers (Sunday School)
Campaign Video Update
Prayer for the Word of God
Message
See info on Pastor's Team
Response
Worship Leader/Pastor to say, "The next few weeks could prove to be revolutionary for our church. If each of us were to genuinely pray that we would see others and ourselves as God does; that we would think about others and ourselves as God does; and if we were to use every ounce of our strength to love others and ourselves as God does, we would reflect the light of God so brightly that others would say, "Surely your God reigns" and would themselves be drawn to the light of the world. So let's sing this as a prayer that it would be so, of this congregation, of this generation, in this part of history."
Worship Team to lead congregation in, "More love, more power"
Send Out
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Alternate Service Elements
Worship
Before you consider alternate songs, keep in mind that Inspiring Worship is your aim - It may be better to find some well-known songs in your current worship songslist and give them "fresh eyes" than to try and teach many new ones that are picked just because they "fit the theme".
WORSHIP SONG OPTIONS:
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SONG TITLE |
FIRST LINE/RELEVANT LINES |
MUSIC RESOURCE/COMPOSER www.christianlyrics.com |
| Bless the Lord | For your beauty, for your wisdom, for your fire, for your suffering, for your anguish ... bless the Lord O my soul, bless the Lord | Jeff Deyo - Light |
| More love, more power | And i will worship You with all of my heart ... with all of my mind .. with all of my strength ... | Jude |
| How Great is our God | He wraps Himself in light, and darkness tries to hide and trembles at His voice .. How great is our God | Matt Redman |
| Our God is an awesome God | Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from heaven above | Rick Founds |
| All the heavens | Let Your face shine on us and the world will know You live | Darlene Zschech - Hillsong |
| Bless the Lord | For your beauty, for your wisdom, and your splendour awesome God... | Jeff Deyo |
| Glorify Your name | Father we love You...Jesus we love you ... Spirit we love you... glorify your name in all the earth | Scripture in Song |
| There is nothing like
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Father true and merciful ... Jesus, Saviour glorified ... Holy Spirit gift of God ... there is nothing like Your love | Hillsong Music |
| Shine Jesus Shine | Shine, Jesus, shine ... fill this land with the Father's glory | Graham Kendrick |
| Reflector | I wanna be a reflector ... let the whole world know that Jesus lives in me | Planet Shakers |
| Here I am to worship | Light of the world, you stepped down into darkness, opened my eyes, let me see ... | Matt Redman |
| Let Your light shine | Let your light shine, let it be seen, to the praise of the mighty God above | Colin Buchanan (Children's song) |
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Creative arts
DRAMAS - do a google search on christian dramas. They need to focus on the 3-fold (Trinitarian) revelation of God to us.
AESTHETICS - You may wish to decorate the worship area with all kinds of visuals to stimulate people to think more broadly about how they are being called by God to colour their world - how they can personally demonstrate the art of living as Jesus did. If your church already has a team of people involved in aesthetics, speak to them regarding any ideas you have and find out what they so you can make sure the worship & visual journey for your people has a sense of continuity and seamlessness.
GIVING
WORSHIP THROUGH SCRIPTURE -
Weaved throughout your time of worship, you may like to use the power of Scripture that will help your congregation focus on the call of God to reflect Him, the "light of the world"
OPTIONS:
Prayer -
Prayer for the one who will bring the 'Word of God'
Message/Sermon
You may like to have the message at the beginning of the service as a challenge, and the 'worship time' as a call to worship the "light of the world" and for people to reaffirm their commitment to grow in reflecting Him.
Response
Send Out/Benediction
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OPTIONS:
Any number of songs from the above list could be used
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