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Allow me to share an idea that’s been helpful in our church. It has done much to lessen the “worship wars” that sometimes happen because of stylistic preferences.\u00a0 See what you think.<\/div>\n
We ask people to recommend songs that “God has used to touch your life.”\u00a0 People get to request a song that would like the worship team to lead sometime in the future, but each person has<\/span> to include his or her name. No anonymous song requests. And only one or two songs per person.<\/p>\n

At the close of a song (we usually project the lyrics)<\/em> the congregation would see something like:<\/p>\n

“This is one of __________ favorite worship songs.”<\/p>\n

For example: (We don’t project the stuff written after in italics…)
\n<\/em>
\n“Big House”
\nThis is one of Elizabeth’s Thompson’s favorite worship songs. (Elizabeth is our 5 year old daughter.)<\/em><\/p>\n

“Because He Lives”
\nThis is one of Bob Floyd’s favorite worship songs. (Bob is our 60 something Leadership Team chair)
\n<\/em><\/div>\n

There are often a number of names listed after a song.<\/div>\n

We’ve found the naming names helps people to see why this song fits for our church. You might not like the song yourself, but if you know that God has used it to touch someone else in the congregation, and who, you get over that more quickly, rather than gripe and complain about how you’re convinced God doesn’t like the song. (It’s amazing how often God hates all the things you happen to hate isn’t it?)<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve had services where “In the Garden” is in the same worship set as “Jesus Freak.”\u00a0 And strangely enough, it fits for us.<\/p>\n

Rooting for you,<\/p>\n

Andrew<\/p>\n

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