One of the drawbacks that I'll confess that I sometimes feel with Lakewood services is the lack of spontaneity. Everything is scheduled down to the second, it seems. There's lots of good that derive from that, but just as a matter of personal taste, I think there's also something to be said for the occasional audible being called.
This past weekend was just the thing for those of us looking for spontaneity, especially on Saturday night as things ran over schedule several minutes. We basically just had our own private celebration with about 40,000 or so of our closest friends and extended church family. Originally, Marcos was scheduled to preach since Joel was a bit off his normal schedule with the trial. But we just kept singing and singing all weekend long. It was lovely.
Through about the first 90% of Saturday night, I just thought why not just give the video routine a break for this week. Much of the night was such that I'm sure anyone would take something out of context even though Joel made it a point all weekend long that this was not just some celebration that "we won, someone else lost." It was a celebration of God and his faithfulness in times of (pardon the pun) trials.
Then Marcos sang. At some early point in this song, I knew I had to show this off. For starters, we simply don't get enough of Marcos singing in English. But more importantly, it sums up the whole weekend in a way that I think and hope could withstand any contextual misinterpretation.
There wasn't a downloadable version of the song anywhere, but there was a video made of this song in its original version (by Marcos). Who am I to pass up gems like this?
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awesome video! thanks for sharing that...
i was at the saturday one...it was amazing...the choir didn't know what songs they gonna sing...it was all last minute thing...but it was awesome! and man i tell you! the service went on till 9pm...it usually ends around 815...that was awesome!
i know they gonna cut off some stuff on sunday services...i wonder how it was...
I watched the two Sunday services and they were definitely more abbreviated, but still a bit different in the order of events. Funny sidenote is that I usually have to race upstairs to do video for Koinonia. We had a *lot* lined up for Saturday night and due to things getting pushed back, I think we wrapped up around 10:30 without time for group discussion when we usually close out group discussion easily by 10pm. Kinda fun every once in a while to run a bit chaotically. I think I'm going to look forward to the next stopwatch-driven service, though ;-)
I noticed the audibles Israel was calling Saturday night and have to say you guys managed it well and came across like the pros you should all probably be. Great job.
i think the whole choir had fun...you can tell in the atmosphere that something great will happened that night....there was an on going joke passing around that it will be the night they gonna play "name that tune"...everyone was excited...dunno when was the last time that happened...
night of worship is coming up in a couple of weeks or so...it will be amazing!
Church is always a good time, always, however, Saturday was the BEST time I've ever had. Total blast!!! It was great not to know what was coming next. We found out in Saturday rehearsal that regular service had turned into a Praise and Worship service and that there was NO song list. Hopefully, we get to play name that tune again soon.