Message Series: “Living the Anonymous Life”

Song / Version / Key / Leader
“This is Amazing Grace” – Phil Wickham – Key of E – Female 1 Lead
“Hosanna” – Hillsong – Key of E – Female 2 Lead
“Lord I Need You” – Chris Tomlin – Key of B – Male 1 Lead
“One Thing Remains” – Bethel – Key of E – Female 1 Lead

We introduced “This Is Amazing Grace” to our church this week and chose the Phil Wickham version because of the lead line in the intro and how it begins with all band in from the top. As I have mentioned before, I love a great lead line. It makes the song memorable and recognizable to the church in the future. I don’t know how many times I’ve had people come up to me after we’ve sang this song and told me that they can’t get it out of their minds! This song is also high-energy, which makes for a great opener. The message of grace and who God is also makes this a perfect song to reinforce and establish theology.

We stayed in the key of E to smoothly transition to “Hosanna,” which is considered a “throw back” song for us. I had our other female worship leader lead this song to give good contrast. I rarely lead two songs in a row. When you have the talented leaders we are so blessed to have, there is absolutely no reason for me to. We ended “Hosanna” with a down chorus and changed the pad to B via midi keyboard.

Our male leader then led “Lord I Need You,” one of our church’s staple songs. This song encourages a humble heart and facilitates well an intimate time of prayer. We hung here for a while and just let our church soak as we cycled through a few down choruses.

Then, we picked the tempo back up a few clicks for “One Thing Remains,” also containing a good lead line. Ending up tempo isn’t something we typically do because we like to have a ministry moment transitioning into the message. However, since had that moment previously during “Lord I Need You,” we ended with a declaration song singing, “Your love never fails, it never gives up, it never runs out on me.”