Behind the Mic – Easter, April 4th, 2010

Worship set for FUEL, April 4th (Easter Sunday)

All Because of Jesus – Steve Fee

All for Love/Shout unto God – Hillsong United

Sweetly Broken – Jeremy Riddle

Hymn – Brooke Frasier

Here is Our King (Use Somebody)/Rise and Sing – David Crowder (music of Kings of Leon)/Steve Fee

My Redeemer Lives – Reuben Morgan

Well it’s been a while since I’ve written a Behind the Mic.  Mainly because FUEL has been different this past month.  We’ve been doing small group ministry with limited singing.  We came back full swing for Easter though.  It was absolutely incredible!  I must say one of the best Easter services I’ve ever taken part in or even attended.  Let me give you my perspective from “Behind the Mic.”

Attendance was incredibly low this past Sunday as most students were attending worship services in the main worship center with their families.  This was actually the first year we’ve had a student service for Easter.  Other than the low attendance, it was a phenomenal service.

We opened up the service with All Because of Jesus which set the mood great for the service.  Immediately after we finished the song the lights went dark and an audio clip from the Passion started to play.  We wanted to begin where we left off on Good Friday, with the crucifixion.  As the music built we played an audio clip from the Bible Experience, Matthew 27: 45-54, the crucifixion of Christ.  The audio is the scripture being read dramatically accompanied by music which really brings the story to life.  We placed the cross in the center of the room with a white cloth draped on it.  While the scripture was being read, we had lights on the cross to add to the scripture and  imagery of the story.  It was very powerful.

After the scripture concluded we gradually transitioned into All for Love in which Ariel sang the lead on.  It was a great song that focused on Jesus being all we need, and the 3rd verse specifically proclaiming that the cross will draw people to Christ.  The response from the students seemed great, especially for there only being maybe a 3rd of what is usually there.  After we finished All for Love, I continued to vamp on chords while the next audio scripture was read.  It was again from the Bible Experience and the passage was Matthew 28:1-7, the resurrection of Christ.  This transitioned us from death into celebrating the resurrection.  After the passage was finished, we began Shout unto God, Mike Kerr lead this song.  It was an absolutely perfect song to sing out of the scripture as it talk about the enemy being defeated, and death can’t hold him down.  It goes on to then say “Shout unto God with a voice of triumph, we lift Your name up, we lift Your name up.”  Musically it is incredibly dynamic and to this day one of my favorite worship songs.  It was incredible.

Paul then spoke on Romans 5 and the hope we now have in Christ because of what He did on the cross.  It was great and led into communion where students wrote “thank you” notes to Christ and placed them at the foot of the cross, in exchange for taking communion.  It was a powerful moment.  While students were taking communion I sang Sweetly Broken and then Ariel and Casey sang the Hymn written by Brooke Frasier, and outstanding song.

After communion we had a celebrative set where Mike came up with an arrangement of Steve Fee’s Rise and Sing incorporating Here is Our King and the music of King’s of Leon’s Use Somebody.  The chords are identical to Here is Our King so it was  a great arrangement.  I think the students really enjoyed it.  I know I did.

We then had a prayer time and finished with the classic My Redeemer Lives which always goes over great with the students.

I can’t really express through writing how incredible the service was.  It was also a blast combining LiFT and Ignite as the band.  I had Matt and Gary on bass and drums from LiFT, and Josh and Evan on electric guitar from Ignite.  Mike and I co led and Casey and Ariel sang as well.   It was a super service with tight music.  Praise God for His resurrection.  It was amazing

Oh and write before we sang My Redeemer Lives, we showed this Rob Bell clip which is pretty inspiring, take a look at it.

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