Sunday Setlist: Wednesday Night of Worship Edition [July 28, 2010]

Last night I had the privilege of leading a Night of Worship gathering at New Life Church in Richmond Hill, GA (near Savannah). My wife, Lydia, and I use a small, intimate acoustic set up to lead for about an hour.

This was the first Night of Worship gathering that they had ever had at the church and the pastor (my good friend, Ryan Ogden), said that he really saw it becoming a regular part of their culture. Probably once month or so.

I like that.

Create an environment where people can come and sing and soak. Nice.

So I put together a 12 song set list. Brought my macbookpro to run a few loops on and set sail for a fun time of singing to God.

I decided to just go with my acoustic guitar for the first 8 songs and then brought the loops in at the end when I moved to the piano for the last 4 songs. I medleyed the last 4 songs and it flowed well.

I think people really enjoyed the night and we’ll be heading back in the future to lead worship with them again!

1) Today Is the Day (Brewster): Key A. I hadn’t done this one since leading at HOJ almost a year ago. It was a little rusty but a fun song to sing.
2) Everlasting God (Brown): Key A. I wish I’d had a full band for this one, but nevertheless it ended up flowing well.
3) All Because of Jesus (Fee): Key A. I probably won’t do this one again. It’s TOO catchy. Every time I lead it I find myself singing it for days and says and days afterwards. My wife doesn’t enjoy my constant treatment of this song because I typically sing it in a Mac Powell voice for some reason. Yea-uuuuh!
4) My Savior Lives (New Life Worship): Key A. One of my favorite upbeat songs to lead. It’s just a fun song. And the people always latch onto it and sing it out loud!

5) All We Want Is You (Evans): Key E. I just love this song. It’s now and “older” song, but it has such a great congregational chorus to sing along with it. I could hear the people singing it out. The verses are a little wordy and tricky, but if you just have one person sing them and have everyone else come in at the chorus this song has a lot of great contrast to it.
6) Blessed Be Your Name (Redman): Key A. What’s not to love about this one?
7) The Lord Reigns (Psalm 93)(Hutto Original): Key G. Fun to lead an original. This song has a pretty catchy prechorus and chorus, so it wasn’t long before people were belting it out along with us.
8) Follow After You (Psalm 63) (Hutto Original): Key G. We cut this one and moved right into the piano driven set.

9) Every Creature (Hutto Original): Key E. I wrote this one back in 03 and it seems to be a favorite wherever I introduce it. I usually spend a moment teaching the chorus (it’s a split male/female echo) part. It always goes over well.
10) Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus (Oldie): Key E. I just used the chorus of this one. We had just gotten finished singing “Jesus” as the chorus of the song before so I wanted to concrete the notion of putting our focus on JESUS as we wen through this medley.
11) Open The Eyes of My Heart (Baloche): Key E. Oldie but goodie. We snag through the verse part twice. Again concreting the focus on Jesus aspect of the last part of the night.
12) Holy & Anointed One (Barnett): Key E. Another “Jesus” song. I loved it. It was a great way to end the night. We sang through this song a few times and then ended with the “Jesus” line over and over.

It was a great night. I think people really enjoyed having a gathering set aside just for worship through song and music. I always enjoy leading these types of gatherings.

I felt a little rusty in a few areas (mostly the faster songs), but was really encouraged by the great response we had. Lydia did a great job of singing the harmonies she knew and just worshiping her heart out during the parts she didn’t know. I love that about her. She might not know a harmony on a song, so she just backs off the mic a little and goes to town worshiping! She is truly a great worship leader!