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Try Something Different
Today in our worship service we decided to try something a little different. Usually we will follow the format of 3 worship songs, then children’s moment, prayer time, offertory, sermon, invitation and closing song. But in a recent trip to the “Every Member In Ministry” conference at Frazer Memorial UMC, we went to one contemporary worship service where they did not do all the music at once or sermon at once but split them up and divided the points and songs throughout the service.
So today we tried our own version. We started off with “Trading My Sorrows” followed by our announcements and welcome, then used a new version of “Jesus Paid it All” followed by the first part of the scripture, and the first point of the
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brought by our youth director Russ Bowlin. Then we sang “Here I Am to Worship” followed by the second part of the scripture and second sermon point, and then had the offertory where I sang a new original song I wrote called “Alleluia.” Finally we had the children’s message, third scripture and third point after which we sang “I Am Free” for the invitation. We recapped with an instrumental version of “I Am Free” after the blessing.
I really liked the flow because it was different. Someone else mentioned it was easy to follow the sermon because it was broken up in three parts. I am not sure that we will do it all the time but it was good to try. What I was reminded though is that we should not feel tied by the same order all of the time. Sometimes our “contemporary” worship service becomes more rigid and tied down than our traditional services. I encourage you to try new things, mix up your order and see what happens.
What do you think?
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