Commentary on worship through music during the TCC.
For a Christian, the vivacity of a song of worship is not purely in the notes, the melody, or even the lyrics. There is a certain quality of the music that is only sensed when the Holy Spirt of God is presently working to empower the elect to sing praises to the one who is alone worthy. One can not "bottle up" this quality and place it into a recording. Indeed, the presence of God among a fellowship of believers singing praise to him is an experience that can not be artificially recreated. This recording is not an attempt to re-create it.
There is no worship from music that makes you "feel tingly" inside if it purely the music alone that one pays attention to.
Instead, I'm sharing this recording from the final service of the 2009 True Church Conference at Grace Life Church of the Shoals as a way presenting the ways in which the presence of the Holy Spirit changed other aspects of the music that can be found in the recording - the unique bits of this particular moment. Even without the benefit of the Holy Spirit's unique presence, the words speak truth, and the beauty of the music echoes the nature of God.
The songs are: Before the Throne, In Christ Alone, and [On Christ the] Solid Rock.
The entire service can be viewed and heard here.
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(A brief note on copyright: It is believed that the use of this material is covered under fair use, as its inclusion is essential to elucidate my commentary.)
For people reading this via my Facebook Notes, you must go to my blog to see the audio player. This post can be found at: http://www.tollie.org/blog/2009/02/22/medley
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