Today was a bi-polar worship day.

At CrossPoint, we have two identical one-hour worship services: 8:30a and 10:30a with Sunday school sandwiched in between. The first service is notoriously groggy, and today was no exception. It felt like I was singing alone at times. The contrast between the 1st & 2nd services was pretty extreme today.

Problem areas…
I don’t think we had the songs down as well as we could have (I take the full blame for not working with the band long enough ahead of time, although we were much more prepared than last time). Also, we were missing a couple of volunteers in some key service areas, which made the weak areas of the worship team all too noticeable (read that: it stressed me out). So, sleepy parishioners aside, I would give the worship today a 5.5 out of 10. (Just to clarify - that isn’t a criticism of the other volunteers or musicians… just myself.)

Here’s the setlist from this morning…

Hosanna - Baloche
Shout to the North - Smith
My Savior’s Love - (hymn)
announcements / offering
Enough - Tomlin
“How to Be a Good Neighbor”, Robert McKeehan
Nothing But The Blood - (hymn)

The closing hymn was wonderful. We made a last second decision to drop the drums in lieu of a djembe, and it worked perfectly. It gave a classic hymn a rhythmic and worshipful feel.

Two things I’m focusing on this week: We need more volunteers to help with sound and video, and I need to start learning more new songs. I read one of my old blog posts and am completely ashamed to admit that I’ve been using the same songs week after week, month after month, year after year (here’s the evidence… see for yourself).

Okay… my wife pointed out that it’s really not THAT bad, but it’s close enough to warrant some self-reflection.