robert robinson come, thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of...

Robert Robinson

Come, Thou fount of every

blessing,

Tune my heart to sing Thy

grace;

Streams of mercy, never

ceasing,

Call for songs of loudest praise.

Come Thou Fount

Teach me some melodious

sonnet

Sung by flaming tongues above;

Praise the mount I’m fixed upon

it,

Mount of Thy redeeming love.

Here I raise my Ebenezer

Hither by Thy help I’m come;

And I hope by Thy good

pleasure

Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wand’ring from the fold of God;

He to rescue me from danger

Interposed His precious blood.

O, to grace how great a debtor

Daily I’m constrained to be!

Let Thy goodness like a fetter

Bind my wand’ring heart to

Thee.

Prone to wander -- Lord, I feel

it

Prone to leave the God I love;

Here’s my heart

Oh, take and seal it,

Seal it for Thy courts above.

journey.

3. How to build toward it and respond from it?

1. One single idea?

2. The moment??

Repentance is “returning to who we were made to be”

The space to (1) ask God to show us how we’ve wandered

from who He’s made us to be, and (2) to turn and come home.(A prayer/reflection based on Psalm 139)

God’s LOVE repentance celebrate (Luke 15)

God’s Children – Mighty to Save – t’shuva – Psalm 139/reflection – pastoral prayer – Luke 15 – Our Love –

How Great

question one:

what would a worship journey look like in your

community?

accompanists.

The community is the choir, the band is the

accompaniment, the WL is the choir director, and the

audience is God.

-sets the foundation of rhythm and harmony to leap from -easy to follow -great at following-knows when to assert themselves and when to get out of the way -is not “enough” on it’s own to qualify as a performance (not a quality issue, it’s a role issue).

If the sound of your rehearsal sounds complete without the community singing, it might not be very good accompaniment.

question two: Would your community say that you accompany their

singing well?

creativity.

The great moments only come at the risk of the greatest train

wrecks.

(1) Experiential Creativity.

(2) Musical Creativity.

(3) Songwriting Creativity.

question three:

What aspect of your worship experience could use a fresh

breath of creativity?

theologian.

“God, we invite you here today”.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I

make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings

of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right

hand will hold me fast.

Psalms 139:7-10

. . .God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps

reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move

and have our being.

Acts 17

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in

the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28:18-20

God is here.

“My starting point is that we’re already there. We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness. Little do we realize that God is maintaining us in existence with every breath we take. As we take another it means that God is choosing us now and now and now.”

Everything Belongs, Richard Rohr

1. Learn

2. Community

question four:

How does your language reflect what you actually

believe is true?

action.

Romans 12:1

Amos 5:21-24

"I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them.

Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.But let justice roll on like a river, Righteousness like a never-failing stream!”

“The test of worship is how far it makes us more sensitive to “the Beyond in our midst”, to the Christ in the hungry, naked, homeless, and the prisoner. Only if we are more likely to recognize Him there after attending an act of worship is that worship Christian rather than a piece of religiosity in Christian dress.”

John Robinson, Honest to God

question six:

How does the worship experience launch your

community into joining God’s Movement?

journey

accompanist

creativity

theologian

action

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