The Work Of The People: Sojourn's Worship Liturgy For Sunday, 6/28/09

This set list is one of many that you can find at the worship music set list blog carnival at fredmckinnon.com, featuring many different kinds of churches.  Photos by Sojourn’s Dan Canales.

1. Fellowship So Deep, by Aaron Senseman and Kinley Lange.  This is a good choice for a song to usher a congregation together and begin a worship service.

Following “Fellowship So Deep,” we heard the Call To Worship from Psalm 7:6-8.

2. Refuge, by Sojourn’s Neil Robins, based on Isaac Watts’s Psalm 31, pt. 1.  You can view the chord sheet on our Over The Grave: The Hymns Of Isaac Watts, Volume One page.  In fact, “Refuge” is also the song that you’ll hear on that page’s video.  Check it out!

3. Sing Alleluia, by Steve Hindalong and Marc Byrd.  A good song of adoration like this makes us realize how far is our fallen state.  So after singing we prayed a prayer of confession together, leading into a song of assurance:

4. My Rock And My Redeemer, by Sojourn’s Rebecca Dennison.  Check out the chord sheet on our These Things I Remember page.  You can hear the mp3 and read Rebecca’s story behind the writing of “My Rock And My Redeemer” here at sojournmusic.com as well (this song didn’t make it into all services, due to time constraints).

Then we engage in the Passing Of The Peace, greeting and conversing with each other in the peace that Christ won for us.  Afterwards two our our elders-in process preached (Ty Thorne in the morning services and Dave Richards in the evening).  They preached on 2 Kings 17, the destruction of Israel by the Assyrians.

5. O How The Mighty Have Fallen, by Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong.  We sang this one for the first time at Sojourn Gathered.  It complemented the sermon very well, so we placed it in an unusual position for us: immediately following the sermon but before communion:

O how the mighty have fallen
O how the reckless are crawling now
O how the mighty have fallen
Such a long way down

6. Your Blood Says Everything, by Billy Sommerville.  We’ve sung this one together for years at Sojourn Gathered, and we’ve given it a bit of a resurgence as of late.  It’s both simple and profound.  We used “Your Blood Says Everything” as our communion song this week.

7. The Power Of The Cross, by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend.  This team can turn a phrase like great songwriters can, and they do it with theological integrity:

Oh, to see my name
Written in the wounds,
For through Your suffering I am free.
Death is crushed to death;
Life is mine to live,
Won through Your selfless love.

Worship band for the 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. services:

Brooks Ritter — vocal and guitar

Neil Robins — bass guitar

Mike Cosper — lead guitar

Smitty Smith — drums

Worship band for the 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. services:

Chad Watson — vocals and guitar

Rebecca Elliott — vocals and keyboard

Mike Cosper — guitar

Eddy Morris — bass guitar

Smitty Smith — drums

Scott Daniel — liturgical readings