| I have shared with many here that I am a full time worship pastor at a church in Texas as well as being a trumpet jazz nut. We are a contemporary music oriented church which means we have a rhythm section/horn section/vocal team and choir.The thing that was most meaningful to me this Palm Sunday was that we started off with celebration music related to Palm Sunday and then transitioned to songs related to the cross (we do not have a Good Friday service) so we ended this service in communion. Our aud. is over 3500 seats and we build a 14 foot tall massive cross with hundreds and hundreds of pre-drilled nail holes in it Every person that came to the service was handed a rough, wedge shaped spike nail. We told them to hold on to it during the service. As we started communion our music team lead worship and people were instructed to come forward for communion and then nail their nails into the cross. Many were weaping as it became very real and personal. We also combined worship music with video clips of The Passion of Christ while people were around the cross. It was a very powerful experience! When the last person was finished we faded the lights, while we played a sound track we had made of an angery mob scene,thunder,lightening etc. Then the cross was raised in the dark and a blood red spot light was down washed on the raised cross cover in hundreds and hundreds of nails that represented our sin that Christ has forgiven. People were asked to leave the Aud. in silence without any postlude of any kind.
On Easter we will contrast this sobering conclusion on Palm Sunday with praise and celebration in all the music we do! Have a blessed passion week...HE IS RISEN!
Finish Well,
Dan
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