It was just one of those Sundays.  That about sums it up.  With no Thursday practice, I was forced to choose familiar (read “safe”) songs that would be hard for us to mess up.  I thought I did, and everything seemed to go well through our soundcheck.  In fact, audio expert Nelson gave us the enthusiastic double thumbs up on all our songs.

Then worship started, and as usual nerves got the best of some of us.  There was the G-string being knocked out of tune.  There was the song started in the wrong key.  There was the random chords on the ending of Revolutionary Love.  Our reviews of that song went like this:

• Worst it’s ever been
• Horrific!
• Sounds like something crawled up in there and died!

All in all, it was night and day from how we sounded in soundcheck, which is always frustrating!  We should just have an early service and let people set in on our soundcheck.  They might enjoy it more.

Anyway, our set list included, Not To Us, which we started a little differently than usual, Revolutionary Love, which we played with a new video track behind us, and Here I Am To Worship, which benefited from a wicked cool new pad sound I found on Reason.

During the summer, with so many visiting mission teams coming and going, it’s almost like having a new congregation every week.  About 1/3 of the people have never worshipped with us before and will not be back the following week.  So without the usual continuity, it forces you to pick LCD songs (least common denominator songs — top 40 worship, if you will).  Doing so allows people unfamiliar with your usual rotation of songs to still latch on and engage in worship, which is what it’s all about.

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