I did this for 3 reasons:

1) I do not wish to pay for something I am not using to the best of my abilities.

2) I am reworking some things in my life and want to put my resources (finances) towards those.

3) I feel that I have to earn the right to pay for my writing since I have honestly slacked off since paying for a domain.

Please join me at www.jbunch.wordpress.com as I continue writing.  I am more faithfully pursuing this now.

One area for me is this area of set lists.  I don’t want to just keep doing songs the same way and choosing them because they are familiar or something of that nature.  I want to get to a place where 24/7 is a catalyst for worship in this city.  There are many churches who worship well and I believe that we are one of them but we have a long way to go.  And I don’t want to get in God’s way.  But here are some songs that we did the past couple weeks to express the heart that God is shaping in us.  Let us know in the comments what songs your church is doing.  I truly believe that God is calling His church to be the most creative place on earth and I know that I am not even close to expressing that with my life.  So let us pray for hard work to come forth from our spirits in order to worship Him most fully and to show His love to a world searching for truth.

1.1.12

1.8.12

I’m not sure why I can’t just embrace each day as the abundant potential contained therein.  I just live a life of ease and then regret after many wandering times.  But this year, I wish to take it on fully.  Being fully present in each moment and holding onto the life that God has called me to live. One that is not meant to be viewed day-to-day but is to be embraced by each experience.

I am excited about 2012 (even though it might be the world’s last).  Are you?

Here’s the thing: I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked. You may be more talented than me. You might be smarter than me. And you may be better looking than me. But if we get on a treadmill together, one of two things is going to happen: you are going to get off first or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple. I’m not going to be outworked.”

- Will Smith

And it was phenomenal.  God truly moved.

Here was the set list:

He is Exalted/Indescribable – Shane & Shane version/Laura Story
Divine Romance –  Phil Wickham
Refuse to be denied – Desperation Band
It is well – Philip Glass hymn
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Be thou my vision – hymn

It was a great time of switching things up and focusing more on the intimacy that should be had in worship.  I have found that an acoustic time of worship is very much needed in churches.  Too many times we feel that we need a full band with drums, an electric, and more in order to enter into worship.  But God is calling us to worship Him with our lives and not our preferences.

What songs did you do at your church this week?  And what has God been teaching you about worship?

This week we had a smaller group leading but it was a great service.

Beautiful the Blood – Fee (Tommy led)
Nothing but the Blood – Matt Redman (Jason)
You are on our side – Elevation worship (Joanna)
Abba – Jonathan David Helser (Tommy)
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From the inside out – Hillsong United (Jason)

It has been great leading with our team because they are all worshipping themselves and leading others into His presence faithfully.

What songs did you sing at your church?

1) Transitions lead us to trust God.
2) Transitions realign what we do with who we are.
3) Transitions lead to brokenness.

There are many more things I could say but these stick out to me right now.

Yesterday at 24/7 Church, we continued our vision series and we focused on the subject of giving.

Here was our set list:

We are the free – Matt Redman
Glory to God forever – Fee
The greatness of our God – Hillsong
Holy, holy, holy – traditional hymn
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Narrow Road – Hillsong

I am not sure why I see this so clearly right now but God is aligning the stars for something big and let me just say that He is starting with me.  He is starting in me and its going to work through me.  But I want you to realize that its not just through me, or else I would boast in myself.

He’s about to do something through our pastor, through our small groups, prayer group, bible studies, and through so many more people who are beginning to be involved in the life of our church.

I’ve realized that God always does something in us before He does something through us and I am very excited to see this happen.

We, as a leadership team, are working through what it means to disciple.  Because without discipleship, we simply have people who make a one-time decision and have nowhere to go.  This should not be the case and I pray that we won’t commit the Great Omission (as Dallas Willard so eloquently wrote about in his book of that name).  In a new role that I feel God is calling me to, I am working through what it means to truly disciple in 21st century Greensboro, NC.

What does a true Christian look like?  What kind of knowledge do they have?  How would one pray like that?  How would one serve like that?  How would one spread the gospel and evangelize in our town?

In essence, this is simply a new way of phrasing what would Jesus do in this place and in this time.

I chose the word precipice because I love the definition of it (“A very steep rock face or cliff, typically a tall one”).  We have a cliff before us and I simply want to ask you, are you willing to take that leap?

Are you willing to jump off the mountain that you have built for yourself and enter the freedom that can only come from jumping?

Let’s take a leap and see what God does.

Set List 9.18.11

One way – Hillsong
Everyday – Lincoln Brewster
Hosanna – Hillsong
Oh You Bring – Hillsong United
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All creatures of our God and King – old hymn by St. Francis of Assisi

Set List 9.25.11

We are free – Matt Redman
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Dancing Generation – Matt Redman
Jesus Paid it all – Kristian Stanfill version
Narrow Road – Hillsong
Set a fire – Will Reagan & the United Pursuit
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The greatness of our God – Hillsong