Jump directly to the Content

A MODEL WORSHIP SET

The chart below shows how hymns and choruses can be effectively combined in ways that allow for variety, while keeping a flow to worship.

We don't want to stumble or break our stride while running. Overall, think of the tempos the following way: invitation and engagement (running), exaltation (jogging), adoration (walking), and intimacy (stopping, silent communion, gazing).

Here's what a twenty-minute "worship set" could look like.

Congregation stands:

Invitation

We Bring a Sacrifice of Praise

Key: D

Engagement

Rejoice in the Lord Always

Key: D

Exaltation

Rejoice, the Lord Is King

Key: B/C

Crown Him with Many Crowns

Key: C

Congregation is seated:

Exaltation/Adoration

Glorify Your Name

Key: B-flat/C

Adoration

I Love You, Lord

Key: F

Intimacy

As the Deer Pants for the Water

Key: C

Congregation stands:

Closeout

Fairest Lord Jesus

Key: D-flat/D

Granted, hymns are more difficult to incorporate into the model. Their wide range of thoughts introduced from stanza to stanza tend to spill over into more than one phase. On the ...

From Issue:Winter 1993: Conflict
March
Support Our Work

Subscribe to CT for less than $4.25/month

Homepage Subscription Panel

Read These Next

Related
WHEN MINDSETS COLLIDE
WHEN MINDSETS COLLIDE
With people of different outlooks rubbing shoulders in the pew, there will be more than a few sparks.
From the Magazine
The Evil Ideas Behind October 7
The Evil Ideas Behind October 7
The Hamas attacks in Israel have a grotesque ideological history and deserve unflinching moral judgment.
Editor's Pick
What Christians Miss When They Dismiss Imagination
What Christians Miss When They Dismiss Imagination
Understanding God and our world needs more than bare reason and experience.
close