What is your worship setlist? What are the songs that your group has connected with over this past semester. This is a question I get asked fairly often as I lead worship with our contemporary service and for our youth ministry. Before I share our songs there are three things I want you to keep in mind.
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Your Experiences Shape Your Setlist
Every group has different experiences and connects with different songs. Many of our songs are ones we heard at one concert or another that we attended. If you go to a camp or mission trip, there may be songs that hold a special place for your group because of that shared experience.
Your Band Shapes Your Setlist
If your worship team has an acoustic guitar, piano and djembe, then you will have one setlist. You will have a different setlist with a full band with electric guitar and drum set. If your group is young and starting out playing, you will have a different set of skills and play different songs than a group that has been playing together for a long time. Neither of these are better than the other. However it will affect what songs your group plays.
(You might like : Building your worship team from the ground up.)
Your Leader Shapes Your Setlist
Whoever is in charge of choosing your music will definitely shape your setlist. Hopefully they take into consideration everything above and choose a list that fits your group and your band, but ultimately they are making the lists, copying the music, rehearsing the band.
With that being said here are some of the songs we are using right now –
O Come to the Altar
Nothing but the Blood
River
Mountain
Only King Forever –
Your Grace is Enough
This is Amazing Grace
We Believe
Set a Fire
I Am
Death Was Arrested
Soul on Fire
Happy Day
No Longer Slaves
Lion and the Lamb