It’s been almost a year since I started blogging again on one platform or another. A couple nights ago, I was looking through some of the old iWeb posts I have on my computer and found this amusing little post that I had forgotten about. This was after the third Heart of Worship toward the end of last summer. I was amused remembering what happened and then again by me trying to make it into a funny story.
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Here’s a hypothetical situation for you, the 6 people that read this, to chew on:

Say there’s a worship leader, we’ll call him Steve, and he’s the worship leader of the college age group at his church. And lets say that his group was putting on a worship event at their church in which anyone and everyone was welcome to attend. It was a big two hour event with prayer and tons of music.

During the planning of said event Dus… I mean, Steve had this hymn that he really liked, which is something because he isn’t really a “hymn guy”. Anyway he put down the hymn in the set order, we’ll just call the hymn “How Deep.” He also added the hymn because he knew that it was one of the band member’s favorite song. And knowing that, he offered to let the band member lead How Deep.

Now the week before the event How Deep was played at the evening service at Steve’s church. This was during a time of communion so Steve was having a heart-to-heart with God at the time of the song. And during the song he realized that it wasn’t the song he thought it was and that he had added the song to the set list thinking that it was a different one. We’ll call the hymn he meant to put in “Before the Throne”.

So during communion and in the mass panic in Steve’s mind as he realized that he just inserted the wrong song into the set, but didn’t want to change the order because it was pretty set, he had a little dialogue with God. This is a rough account of what went down.

Steve: Oh crap.

God: What’s up?

Steve: I added this song for the worship night thinking it was a different one!

God: Uh oh…

Steve: You’re telling me! Is there anyway you can still work your stuff and make everything turn out good?

God: I’ll see what I can do.

Steve: What does that mean?

God: …..

Steve: Hello?

God: ….

Steve: Hey, you still there?

God’s Voicemail: Hey it’s the Alpha and Omega. I’m busy at the moment but if you leave your name, location, and reason for calling I’ll be sure to get back to you soon.

Steve: That was weird.

Communion Server: Communion is over, Steve. Go sit down.

Okay, okay, so that might not have been exactly how it went down, but that’s the spark notes version of it. Long story short, the hymn that Steve accidently put in to the set actually turned out to be probably the best song of the night and it really drew people in. Steve was grateful for what God did, and immediately added the correct song, Before the Throne, to the list of songs for the next worship night.

Steve sure lucked out on that one,
Dustin

p.s. This was all hypothetical of course.

p.s.s. No seriously, it was all hypothetical.

p.s.s.s. Okay fine. I admit it, I’m Steve, and I put How Deep the Father’s Love For Us in the set list for Heart of Worship III thinking that it was actually Before the Throne of God Above. So what? Who hasn’t had an incident in which they put the wrong song in a worship set? It happens all the time I bet.
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yeah….

d

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