Sunday Set List - 08/03/08
•August 5, 2008 • 3 CommentsCelebrate Jesus, Celebrate*
My Redeemer Lives*
Hallelujah, Jesus Is Alive*
(* - medley)
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
No Sweeter Name
You Are Good
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Wayne Thomas
Daybreak Baptist Church
Daybreak Baptist Church - Sunday Set List - 7/27/08
•July 29, 2008 • 1 CommentCome Thou Fount, Come Thou King (through 1st chorus) - Gateway Worship
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Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King/All Hail King Jesus - Dave Moody(Hosanna- Integrity)/Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King
You Are Good - Gateway Worship - Kari Jobe
You Are My King- Phillips Craig and Dean/My Jesus I Love Thee - Hymn/You Are My King
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Come Just As You Are - Hillsongs
This was a tremendous morning of worship for our church. The way Gateway remade Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King is so awesome! We absolutely love all of Gateway and Christ For The Nations stuff!
So this is my first Sunday Set List installment, and I got the idea from another blog - FredMcKinnon.com - and the idea is to network Worship Leaders together from all over the globe in order to compare their Sunday Set Lists and learn from each other. Rad idea! Click HERE for the original blog entry.
I think this will be a lot of fun … so many are already posting their weekly setlists, and this is a way to allow everyone else to see each other’s setlist posts easily. Got questions? Just leave a comment below.
Sunday SetList for July 27, 2008
Daybreak Baptist Church
Worship Leaders- Wayne Thomas, LeAnn Thomas, Jason Lee
PCUSA Assembly Approves Deleting Gay Clergy Ban
•June 28, 2008 • 4 CommentsThe Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s highest governing body voted Friday in favor of a proposal that would allow for the ordination of non-celibate gays and lesbians.
The 218th General Assembly, meeting in San Jose, Calif., this week, voted 380-325 to send the overture – that would delete the requirement that clergy live in “fidelity within the covenant of marriage between and a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness” – to the denomination’s 173 presbyteries for approval.
Adding to the blow to conservatives, the Assembly also adopted a supplementary authoritative interpretation of the PC(USA) constitution that would allow gay and lesbian candidates for ordination to conscientiously object the current “fidelity and chastity” standard and the local ordaining body to discern whether the declared objection is disqualifying.
After decades of debate on gay clergy, commissioners and delegates at the meeting continued to argue on both sides, but the debate this year was shorter than in previous years, according to the Presbyterian news service from the General Assembly.
Approving the proposal of amending the PC(USA)’s constitution would “destabilize the denomination, obliterate trust and reduce funding for the church. Don’t send a shock wave through the church,” said the Rev. William Stepp of Tropical Florida Presbytery, who opposed the drop on the gay clergy ban.
The PC(USA) “needs a continuing strong witness to biblical standards for sexuality,” he added, according to the news service.
But with discussion on ordination standards having gone on for 30 years, the Rev. Susan Fisher of Pacific Presbytery felt “compelled” to advance the amendment to the presbyteries to “let the wider church decide if now is the time” to change the standards.
The Rev. Dan Holloway of Providence Presbytery, who moderated the Assembly Committee on Church Orders and Ministries that brought the recommendation to the Assembly, stressed that the Assembly’s vote has not changed the denomination’s constitution. But with heated debates expected across the denomination as presbyteries decide whether to approve the proposed amendment – a process that could take up to a year – Holloway urged for “gracious and loving and welcoming” conversations “since we are not all of one mind.”
Pleading for unity, outgoing General Assembly Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick said, “There are people who are gay and lesbian who long passionately to be included. There are others who believe strongly, not that they don’t love them, but that standards must be upheld. What is essential is the spirit of unity as we go forward to a new stage in the process.”
Also on Friday, the Assembly approved a new authoritative interpretation of the Book of Order - which contains Rules of Discipline for the PC(USA) - declaring that interpretive statements related to sexual standards for ordination that predate the adoption of the “fidelity and chastity” requirement in 1996 “have no further force or effect,” as reported by the Assembly news service.
The “fidelity and chastity” requirement had replaced language prohibiting non-celibate gays and lesbians from ministry.
Courtesy of christianpost.com
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