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God's love is big - Simon Parry
You are the King of Glory! - Mavis Ford (Mission Praise)

You gave Your only Son - Martyn Layzell
Wonderful so wonderful (Beautiful one) - TH

Hosanna - Brooke Fraser

Shout of the King - Ned Davies (Hillsong)

Interesting at the moment. After years of having a totally free reign over choice of songs we have a locum vicar during interregnum who wants us to use certain songs. This has made us dust down some old stuff, such as You are the King of glory, and also consider music that we might have otherwise dismissed.

As a general rule of thumb we try to only include songs once a month, which makes the more popular songs a lot more coverted between the worship leaders. It makes us think a lot more regarding how to express certain themes.

I wouldn't have it another way. Though it would be nice not to be beaten to Everlasting God each month grrr.

Last Sunday evening:

Let everything that has breath
The rising sun [replacing the newly-resting 'Indescribable'!]

Salvation belongs to our God
Our God is an awesome God

When all around is fading

O worship the king
Glory and power (See him coming)

Hmm I don't know about anyone else but I've been having real trouble with phrase "set list" when used in the setting of musical worship.

Don't get me wrong, I strongly agree that we should plan and prepare for our musical worship, but at the same time we must allow God to move AS we worship. If we are so caught up in a set list environment and cannot move from this then there is a high possibility that we will miss what God is trying to say to us, or the direction he is trying to take our worship in.

The key is to remain flexible within our song choices and to get to a stage where you and those in your music group/tech crew have the confidence to step out in faith and change the set list if you feel guided. This is not saying changing for the sake of changing or changing just to be difficult but doing so when you feel spirit led. A set list can sometimes keep us within our comfort zones as worship leaders... God will meet with us fully when we are prepared to step out and come to him in faith, not behind the shield of a set list.

Nick
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You Are my Joy (crowder)
Beautiful One (hughes)
Lead me to the Cross (hillsong)
In Your Freedom old hillsong
Salcation is Here (hillsong)

We play a blend of traditional hymns, older chorus, newer contemporary, and just plain fun.. (everything mixed together..)

2/24
That's why we praise him
open the eyes of my heart, Lord
i'll trust in the Lord
this is the air
In Christ alone
amazing Grace (the chains are gone)
Refiners fire
We will dance

03/03
My Saviors Lives
Blessed Be Your Name (with Blessed be The Name)
Son of God
Hallelujah, Jesus
Above All
By His Wounds (with Nothing but the Blood)
Draw me Close

ALOTA good ideas of set lists here...We do around the same at loft...beauty of your peace, silence falls, maker of all things, God of this city, Pure light, Breathing the breath, and I like to incorporate alota good urban gospel worship stuff...like Fred Hammond. One of the greatest worship leaders...You are the living word, Lord of the harvest, I wanna know your ways, No weapon, Lord your grace...etc
Delirious stuff: Now is the time, Rain down, We give you praise

Amazing Grace (MCAG)
You Are My Own
Holiness
God of Wonders
There is a Redeemer
Create in me a clean heart
Feed us now
Communion
Give Thanks
In the Secret

2/10
how great thou art
let god arise
happy day
hungry
beautiful one
he who made
everything glorious

2/17
indescribable
holy is the lord
on our side
god of this city
mighty to save/shout to the lord
solid rock

wheres the gospel???

Our setlist last Sunday was

Tell The World (Hillsong)
Better is One Day (Kutless)
Strong Tower (Kutless)
Revolution (Starfield)

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Here's mine for tonight:
20 Jan ‘08 - Setlist Calvary Chapel Seaside, Laguna Beach, CA
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You are My King
Billy Foote © 1996 Worshiptogether.com CCLI# 2456623

Offering
Paul Baloche © 2003 Integrity’s Hosanna Music CCLI #3956562

He Is Here
Paul Baloche & Brian Doerksen © 2006 Hosanna! Music CCLI # 4842008

What an Awesome God
Steve Deal © 1997 Jubilee Music

How I Love You Lord
Tommy Walker © 1994 WeMobile Music CCLI # 2161059

Hebrews 8

I Will Trust in You
Kevin Green © 1995 Kevin Green

Your Name
Paul Baloche & Glenn Packiam © 2006 Hosanna! Music CCLI #4611679

It's great to read what others are doing in their churches. I lead worship in quite a small church and I sometimes get a bit 'stuck in a rut' as well. Here is what we did on Sunday:

The King of Love (Oakley)
I see the Lord and He is high and lifted up (Oakley)
Come thou fount of every blessing (trad - Robinson)
The Lord's my Shepherd (Townend)
I will offer up my life (Redman)
King of Kings,Majesty (Cooper)

Al - we have did 'Morning Star' a couple of weeks ago and the congregation loved it! :)

We record our sets, helps with CCLI reporting and answering questions about new songs. We do a mix of hymns and contemporary and ancient contemporary, though I try to keep the ancients to a minimum, though they do tend to pop up with the other 2 leaders. It is great to see what others are doing.

10th Feb - Leanne's set

To God be the glory (trad)
We want to see Jesus (Doug Horley)
I will worship (David Ruis)
Breathe (Marie Barnett)

I give you my heart (Reuben Morgan)
Amazing Grace [Chains] (Trad + Tomlin ch )
rejoice the Lord is King (trad)

17th Feb - my list

Your hand O God (Keith Getty)
I could sing of your love (Martin Smith)
Sing to the Lord (Stuart Garrard)
I see the Lord [chorus only] (Chris Falson)

Happy day [teaching this for Easter] (Tim Hughes)
All my Days (Stuart Townend)

I really appreciated Tim's blog on the songs we sing and how much of them. I lead worship twice a month and pray about the songs we sing, how much we sing them and how the congregation will be able to enter into worship with us.

Here are some of the songs we did two weeks ago:

Holy is Your Name (Unhindered)
For who You Are (Hillsongs)
Blessed Be the Name (Redman)
Holy is the King (Rita Springer)
Fragrant Offering (Rita Springer)
Fall On Me
Light the Fire again.

So last saturday night we played:
Majestic (Brewster)
Awesome God/He Reigns (Franklin)
For the Lord is Good (All Together Seperate)
One Way

Sunday Mornings setlist:
Friend of God
For the Lord is Good
Lord, You are Good
Open the Eyes
Awesome God/He Reigns

Great lists - it's good to see what others are doing.

Last week we did

I stand amazed
We see the Lord (Robin Mark)
Psalm 103 (in house)
Everlasting God

Hi, yep we have recently found ourselves doing lots of the same songs over and over, so from last year we committed to bringing in a new song every 3/4 weeks - it's great.

my set list last week was;

Forever
Free to Run (Newsboys)
Mighty To Save (Hillsong)
Amazing Grace (My Chains are gone) (C Tomlin)
Surrender

Thanks

last week (Lenten focus):

Hallelujah
Shine Your Light On Us
Be the Centre
You Are (in house)
The Doxology
I Will Offer Up My Life
My Jesus I Love Thee

week before:

Holy Is the Lord
Everlasting God
Missions Flame
Lord of Lords
If I Have Not Love
You Are (in house)
Beautiful One

re post 11 .....ho ho ho. Al we all know its you.

Sometimes we have the opposite problem as we have a number of worship leaders who favour different writers and styles of song. This can cause issues for the band and congregation who are expected to know them all! We've come up with a list of 50 that are our current songs that all band members should be able to play without practising, any others and the worship leader should allocate time to rehearse. We review them every term and replace any new ones that have become favourites and throw out any that are a bit stale. I do agree though that it is tricky when a new really good song has come out and all the worship leaders want to use it - I try to avoid doing the same songs too many meetings in a row.

I agree with Caleb's comments about Trinity worship. I tried to find some to particularly worship the Spirit and was stuck!

My set list on Sunday night:
Blessed to be a blessing (Abundant Life)
Take all the glory (Abundant Life)
Dancing generation (Redman)
With all I am (Hillsong)
The more I learn (Cottee, in-house)
Let the world see Jesus (Abundant Life)

Normally my set lists are a bit more Hillsong-heavy but I was obviously having an Abundant Life day!

Its so great to see the way other people are putting together their set lists - I'd be interested to see how you are linking some of these too :)

Before service:

Here in the presence of Christ I'll stand (Bennetts)

Service:

Alleluia (Agnus Dei) (Smith)
Holy is the Lord God Almighty (we stand and lift up our hands) (Tomlin) (starting from repeats of chorus - no tag!)
Great is the Lord (and Lord we want to lift your name on high) starting from chorus?
Holy, Holy (lift up his name) (Fellingham)

Sermon etc

Communion:
Light of the world - repeat re cross and pull back for final chorus/ kids come in

during communion:

Come see the beauty of the Lord (Graham Kendrick)
You led me to the cross (Redman)
I stand amazed (How marvellous) (Trad)

Additional songs if time/ to close:

Amazing Grace (Grace Like Rain)(Warren)
Pearl of Price (in house)

On hymns with a modern twist, David Gate's version of There is a name I love to hear (O how I love Jesus) and doing To God Be The Glory in 4:4 is working well for us across all ages at the moment...

Set list from yesterday:

Sweet Wind (Ruis)
Open The Eyes of My Heart (Baloche - drop D)
Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble (Deliriou5)
The Highest And The Greatest (Hughes)
Nothing But The Blood (Redman)
How Great Is Our God (Tomlin)
All I Need (In House)

I actually have all my set lists on my computer starting in 1997. I have found that, just like a diary, it is great to be able to look back and see how things have changed in the last while plus remembering God's fingerprints in different ways as we worshiped him in such various songs. It does look sorta weird looking back at this set and realizing this was one of those 'rez the oldies' sort of service. I was amazed at what God did bring about from Sweet Wind (an oldie) as the lead pastor asked to sing it again at the end of the set as a declaration of what we desire God to do in our presence, city, nation and world.

As a side note I always feel the challenge to lead songs that I may not even enjoy (be it musicability, lyrical style, etc.) but note that God may be trying to use. Using me in spite of myself God has broken through some of these songs in incredible ways in our congregation; things we would not have been able to experience had I just stuck to my 'songs in good taste' list. I mean that just as personal preference, not as in choosing through songs based on theological content and substance. Hopefully I never get away from this stretching sort of pattern as I find it to be one of the most helpful to keep me in check - leading worship for God's glory, not the song list.

This week the songs were

Jesus, we celebrate Your victory
Jesus is the name we honour
Great is Your faithfulness (Holy hands)
My troubled soul
I stand amazed
What a friend I've found
And can it be?

This are the songs I led with this morning:

Wonderful so Wonderful (Beautiful One)
O God of Love (How Good It Is)
Lord I come before Your throne of grace (What a faithful God have I)
All Glory to the King of Ages (Ever Faithful God)
You are God in Heaven (Let my words be few)
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Lord I come to You (Power of Your Love)

The ones that get overplayed most at my church are:
Give thanks to the Lord our God and King - Chris Tomlin
My Jesus, My Saviour - Darlene Zschech
Come now is the time to worship - Brian Doerksen
This is my Desire - Reuben Morgan

When I lead, I try to not use these songs in particular to give the worship a bit more variety and use ones that haven't been sung in a while.

Jonathan

this week...

beautiful One
filled with Your glory
glorious One
everlasting (in house)
hallelujah, etc.

last week...

glorious One
forever
fuel
all hail the power
You are so good to me

the week before that...

our love is loud
happy day
every move i make
enough
at the foot of the cross

Also, on the subject of analyzing songs, I recently read "Worshipping Trinity" by Robin Parry, which was referenced at the last worship central event. The last chapter of the book recommends taking a look at all of the songs we're leading to see how trinitarian our worship is. This is recommended of course after the case is clearly made that we are teaching and modeling theology just as much if not more than the actual messages in our churches.

The survey includes three-person songs, two-person songs, one-person songs, and "Lord-songs", which would be songs that do not specify which member of the Godhead it is addressing. To my horror, out of 50 songs surveyed, we only sing two songs that are triune. 'How Great Is Our God' and 'Our God Saves'. I also found that we do not sing any songs that are solely to the Spirit. There are a few that are Father/Spirit or Son/Spirit, but even those are few. The same goes for songs about the Father. Over half of the songs are directly to Jesus, or at least implied to Jesus. And then the majority of the songs are "Lord" songs.

This was eye-opening to me as the one who is supposed to be shaping worship at our church. By doing this survey I was able to find the gaps and encourage our worship leaders to be writing songs to the Father and Spirit and be looking for songs and hymns that will bring balance to our worship.

This of course also has massive implications for how I now approach songwriting, and especially how I pray. It has been a good practice to be more mindful of who I am praying to and why. I would definitely encourage anyone to read "Worshipping Trinity" and sharpen your understanding of one of the greatest mysteries of our faith.

For our church and worship leaders this is always a big topic. It is increasingly difficult because we have multiple services, and three worship leaders on a given weekend. We place a very important emphasis on worship as response, which leaves us doing most of our worship after the message, often in line with the message thematically. As a church that is always doing a message series, we've found that certain songs will mark the seasons we're in as a church.

We've just finished a series through Ephesians, which talks a lot about dying to self, putting off/putting. Through the last two months songs of surrender, dependence, and identity have been forefront. We're now getting ready for a series on the last week of Jesus, so we are anticipating a lot of songs to and through Jesus. The tricky part is after Easter we are beginning a series on Song of Solomon. That could be interesting. I am hoping Tim and Al have a secret repertoire of Song of Solomon songs!

In recognition of having multiple services and rotating worship leaders, we have to constantly work on being consistent and leading similar songs, supporting new songs, and not repeating songs too often. I send out a weekly e-mail that includes the message synopsis, how it will lead to response, and at least 2 or 3 songs that we all will lead and build our sets around. This has been very helpful for us to know that our church is worshipping through a similar path across seven services, two venues, and three worship leaders. On that list we also have a list of songs that need a rest, and sometimes even songs that need to be retired. It is difficult and requires sacrifice from all of us to make it work, but it is beginning to work and feel more natural.

Thanks for the post - great thoughts.

We do a new song or two each month. We do it 3 times in first month and two time in the next month so people get a chance to become familiar with it. By then, the band hates it cuz we played it some many times between Sundays and practice. I think sometimes the band can think songs are overplayed because we play it so many times. But like posted - sometime they are overplayed.

We did a series called Retro at our church - about back to the basics. Each week had a decade connected to it...like the 70's was about community. Anyways, we did some church songs from each decade in our set too. So we got some oldies in the mix.

CURRENT OVERPLAYED SONGS AT THE JOURNEY CHURCH MUSKEGON, MI USA (my church)

Mighty to Save (hillsong)
Only You (DC*B)
My Savior My God (Shust)
Beautiful Lord (Leeland)
O The Glory of it All (DC*B)
Love Song (Morant)

This is all very interesting. I find it hard to find a balance between playing songs that people know and love, and introducing new songs to them.

P.S. Rod I just thought I would let you know that Your Grace is enough/Great is Your Faithfulness was actually written by Matt Maher. I just had to say that because I am a huge fan. You can check him out at mattmahermusic.com. I love chris tomlin too though