Resource: Contemporary Songlists from the Lectionary
Jul 28, 2008 Free Stuff
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Russell Martin
I know there are many churches that use a “sermon series” format for their worship services. This makes it real easy on the worship leader when choosing songs because they have a general theme to go off of for several weeks. This is how I had done things for several years before moving to my current church. Here we use the lectionary. The lectionary is basically a three year cycle of scripture that follows the church liturgical calendar and takes you through most of the scriptures in the bible in three years. Each week there are readings from the Old Testament, Psalms, New Testament and Letters, or something close to that. At first I thought this would be more difficult when chosing worship songs but really it just takes a little more work and study. One thing that helps tremendously is the United Methodist Music and Worship Planner, which already is filled with suggestions of hymns and worship songs for a particular Sunday. One of the benefits of this system is that I can tell you the scripture will be one of four passages as far ahead as you would like. As long as we are choosing music along those themes we should be inline with what will be brought in the message.
With knowing that far in advance what is coming it allows us to come up with tentative songlists well in advance. We sat down yesterday and planned basic lists from August 3rd to September 28th. Now this does not mean they are set. Songlists change all the time because we find a song that fits better, or we have people out a particular sunday and the instrumentation is not right for a particular song, or the pastor takes a different focus than we were expecting, but they work as a base to go off of.
Because I know there are some others of you who use the liturgical calendar and preach from the lectionary I am going to provide you the link to our songist. Please use these as suggestions or as a jumping point for your own lists. Also remember that your pastor may not choose the same passage to focus on for a particular week, but these should still be helpful for you.
Songlists August 3 thru September 28
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September 28th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
[...] week Kerri and I sat down and put together tentative songlists for the rest of October. Our pastors preach from the lectionary, so since we chose songs to try to compliment that I will put those up for other churches which may [...]