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Songs That You Expected To Become Widely Used By Worship Leaders That Weren't
I don't know about you but there's a few songs i've heard on CDs or sung in small groups over the years that I almost instantly thought "this will be a well known song soon, and used in many churches". However for whatever reason some of them never seem to get sung widely.
Which songs have you been surprised haven't become well known and widely adopted by worship leaders?
Which songs have you been surprised haven't become well known and widely adopted by worship leaders?
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Permalink Reply by Phil Williams on -
One that springs to mind is a song by Vineyard called "The Lord Is Gracious and Compassionate". Anyone know that one?
Also, "I Will Boast" by Paul Baloche...
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Permalink Reply by Mark Paulson on -
I felt the same way about "The Lord is Gracious and Compassionate", but whenever I mentioned it to a member of my team, they'd say something like "yeah...that's a pretty decent song...it's from scripture". So, I figured it was just for my personal devotion and I had it read wrong. Good to know someone else thought it was gonna catch fire.
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Permalink Reply by Junjie on -
I personally don't think "THe Lord is Gracious and Compassionate" is that well written. Too many syllables in each line, so it doesn't really 'breathe'. Am I making sense? I'm not a songwriter, so I am unfamiliar with the appropriate terminology. :)
Agree with you on Paul Baloche's "I Will Boast"...
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Permalink Reply by Phil Williams on
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Good point Junjie - it's definitely not the easiest one to sing and that will be why! The refrain at the end - "Praise the Lord, O my soul, praise the Lord" is a nice simple part to sing though. I think this could be tagged onto, or inbetween other songs quite easily...
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Permalink Reply by tsholofelo mpuru on -
we actually sing "The Lord Is Gracious and Compassionate" at our church...but we only started singing it recently...and we are a Vineyard church...
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Permalink Reply by Susan Bittle on -
We have been using "I Will Boast" for several months now and the congregation seems to like this one.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Kirkendall on -
We used the Lord is Gracious and Compassionate alot- back in the day.
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Permalink Reply by Todd Vaters on -
One by Matt Redman that I think is called "I'm Coming Up the Mountian Lord". It was on his first (or close to his first) CD. I thought it was one of the coolest songs on the CD with awesome lyrics but it was never widely used from what I know.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Brumley on -
"Can I Ascend". Great song for us bass players, and just a great song in general. I learned it in one church, brought it to another where it caught fire, and never played it anywhere else.
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Permalink Reply by Bizzy Bender on -
Todd, it's called Can I Ascend as Jeff Brumley pointed out . It is a great song and I use it in worship here and there but I haven't heard any of the others use it.
There are a bunch of Tomlin's songs that I think should be used more often Awesome is the Lord most high comes to mind.
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Permalink Reply by Matt Osgood on -
If it's any consolation we use 'The Lord is Gracious and Compassionate', especially the 'Praise the Lord' tag, that works really well in loads of situations. Personally I'm surprised not to have heard more of the CompassionArt songs being used at festivals etc, especially 'So Great' and 'King of wonders' - is anyone using those?
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Permalink Reply by tsholofelo mpuru on
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I'm a big Leeland fan so anything Leeland sings on I try to bring to my worship team...but the leaders think his stuff is too hard to sing or they are more personal songs not congregational...or something like that, I don't know...anyway, I love a lot of the stuff he sings on CompassionArt (ie king of the broken) and some that he doesn't (ie So Great) but no one else seems to...
We have decided to add "Enter this temple" by Leeland to our songlist though, so maybe they are changing that mind...although I think that is the hardest Leeland song to sing.
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