Welcome to sojournmusic.com’s weekly worship music set list review. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com. And you can learn about some of the songs we sing at Sojourn Gathered each week in advance of the Sunday service by reading my “Getting Ready For Sunday” post each Thursday at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. This set list recap begins with the first song following the Call To Worship (our sets often begin with a pre-Call To Worship song that is “band leader’s choice,” and so is different in each campus). Some additional variations in the music sets may have taken place in each service/campus.
We’ll publish many photos of this service — from all campuses and service times, including our 10th Anniversary Celebrations — this Wednesday in our sister site, TravelBlog.
Call to Worship
Today is a great day – a great reason to celebrate together. Ten years ago, Sojourn had its first public service. In these ten years, we’ve grown from a single gathering with about 60 people to a church of nearly 2400 people, 6 services, and three campuses.
Last week we celebrated 21 baptisms, and we’ve celebrated XX (a ton) so far this year. Truly we have much to be thankful for.
Our church is named Sojourn because we’re a people on a journey. This broken world isn’t our home, and we live each day in hopes of the better world that’s to come.
In the 1600’s, a young man named Joachim Neander lived the life of a Sojourner.
It was a time of chaos in the church, and because of persecution he lived as a wanderer, homeless in the hills of Germany. He was a Sojourner, just like you and me! He knew that in spite of whatever trials may surround us in the world, there is an enduring hope and a God worth worshiping no matter what. Let’s stand together and sing this hymn, written by a Sojourner almost 400 years ago as we celebrate God’s faithfulness to us!
Song: Praise to the Lord the Almighty
Prayer:
Father, we want to continue this day by proclaiming that You are good and that every good and perfect gift comes from above. You have done so much in our midst and we pray that you continue the work that you have begun in Sojourn Church. Please guard us from prideful hearts that might think that we have it all together. We want to say we believe, like Your scripture says, that “apart from You, we can do nothing,” but “with you, we will bear much fruit.” Father, help us continue to abide in You and to see much fruit as we continue to journey.
Our desire is to see the Gospel transform everything, and it would be so foolish of us to believe that this city would be transformed by one church alone. So we thank you, Lord, for the work you’re doing in other churches in this city.
We thank you for the churches that have faithfully preached the gospel, like Immanuel Baptist, Antioch, The Crossing, Clifton Baptist, 9th and O, Southeast Christian Church and so many others. Please continue to use them and empower them. May their work bear much fruit, and may your Spirit give us a unity that can only be explained by your grace.
And Lord, we pray that all churches in the city would preach the gospel. Please intervene where You are being misrepresented and Your life giving truth is being watered down. Renew and revive your people, Lord. Give Christians everywhere a hunger to know and share the Gospel. Awake the lost, and show them the glory of your son. We pray this in HIs name and for His glory, Amen.
I invite to lift up your own silent prayers for the Gospel to revive this City, or to sink in to the hearts of those you know that don’t know Jesus.
Song: Give Reviving
Song: God of this City
Passing the Peace
Let’s continue in our celebration by reaching and welcoming one another
Sermon
Communion
Song: Be Still My Soul
Closing Reading
This is what God calls us as his people:
You are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,
in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him
who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
all of us together have received God’s mercy in Christ.
In Christ we are forgiven, redeemed,
and made to be a community united in faith.
Thanks be to God.
—based on 1 Peter 2:9-10, NRSV
Song: We Are Changed
Song: Fellowship So Deep
Benediction
Go now, celebrating what God has given us in Christ, enjoying what he’s given us in his church, and anticipating what is yet to come as his mission moves forward. Go in the name of the Father who loves you, the Son who died for you, and the Holy Spirit who fills your hearts and travels with you. Peace be with you all.
Happy Anniversary, Sojourn!