Comments on: Worship Confessional 02.17.08 http://kimbontrager.com/2008/02/20/worship-confessional-021708/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bobby Gilles http://kimbontrager.com/2008/02/20/worship-confessional-021708/#comment-76 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:58:18 +0000 http://worshipstories.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-76 That’s a great question. I think that sometimes, particularly with contemplative, meditative songs, it is hard to tell if a song is “working.” At least, the first few services.

This past Sunday at Sojourn we did a new song: an updated version of the Isaac Watts hymn, “Absent from Flesh, O Glorious Thought” with a new melody and song lyric revisions by one of our worship leaders, Jamie Barnes. Everyone seemed to catch the melody right away, and people have been writing about how much they enjoyed it on our church message board.

It’s nice when that happens, from the standpoint of knowing that you’ve got a theologically-good song that your congregation is responding to. But there have been plenty of times when I’ve heard someone talk about how a certain song has blessed them, and it’s turned out to be a song that I never knew had really impacted anyone in a big way.

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