But, as with all good reality TV, THERE'S JUST ONE CATCH!
You have to have some stuff in there that people who may or may not have been around in Pentecostal churches up to 20 or so years ago might know. This makes it a little trickier...
Here is my list, but I'm really struggling on good old Pentecostal-friendly stuff. I need your help - please comment!
Servant King
The Heavens shall declare
Amazing love
There is a Redeemer
Consider Christ
Highest Place
Never Alone
Hallelujah to the King of Kings
Let your Kingdom come
In Christ Alone
Jesus, your blood and righteousness
May the mind
How deep the father’s love
My Hope is built
In His Image
Amazing Grace
Be thou my vision
Before the throne of God above
Rock of ages
When I survey
A couple of notable omissions (perhaps)
ReplyDeleteBlessed be your name
See Him coming
Should anything on there be tossed in favour of either of these?
Take My Life(GH)
ReplyDeleteChrist Alone (different to In Christ Alone)
Call For Mercy (GH)
Mighty To Save (Hillsong)
Better Is One Day (Matt Redman)
God Of Wonders
How Great Is our God
Some ideas.
Here are some good oldies I remember:
ReplyDeleteI love you Lord
As the Deer
Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise
Lord I lift your name on high
All I once held dear (from Phil 3, my favourite song)
The heavens shall declare
Great in power (a bit newer)
You might want to consider ditching "may the mind" - I find it too us centred and imperitive and it just makes me feel guilty for not really feeling these things. I prefer to sing about how great God is.
A newer song that's great and Pentecostal friendly is "Who is like you Lord of heaven?" (Chorus: Oh for a thousand tongues to sing...)
Soph :)
Thanks for the help guys. Duke, I'm not sure I could justify bumping anything from the list in favour of these songs. What do you reckon should make way for them?
ReplyDeleteSoph, thanks for these suggestions. There are couple here I don't know, I should check them out. As for the ones I do know, there's a fine line between endearingly daggy and just plain daggy :)
I quite like how out there 'May the mind' is - I reckon it's a good one to sing after a sermon that challenges us on our mindset and attitude towards others. It think the fact that it is a prayer to God for these things to be true kind of gets it off the hook on being too us-centred and imperative. It's asking God that this might happen. But what do you reckon?