This week Tim wrapped up our Love & Sex series with questions from our attenders at Grace. Check out his additional notes here. It was a tough week. Many great questions were received and many heart wrenching stories as well. Thank you to all who took the courage to ask some seriously tough questions. Check out the audio here.
Did that Just happen?
So...the music. First off, huge thanks to Brad (Soakie as he's known here on BabuLife) for stepping in for Sam. He did great leading worship. Second...huge thanks to Scott Stanley and the band for the support behind the story I'm about to tell. Here goes.....
First service went off wonderfully without a hitch. Second service...not so much. During the first song I realized my guitar suddenly was dead in the mix. I instantly figured it was the 9volt in the Fishman (for those not familiar...this is what provides power from the guitar to the audio system). During the song, Scott, our fearless audio lead, ran to the stage with a fresh battery. While singing, someone handed me the fresh battery and took the old. While trying to sing, I inserted the battery in the guitar. Still no sound. I decided it was a much larger issue with the guitar.
After the first tune, our stage crew ran to my office to get my other Breedlove (that's a guitar). While this was happening, I went through some announcements...planned ones, ones that I made up on the fly...as one of our team members noted, I think I pretty much told the congregation everything except the fire exits. I was out of stuff to make up. I decided to go ahead and pray. Instantly I felt someone taking my guitar off my back and attempting to replace it with the second. Problem solved! Not so fast....
We went right into the next tune. Nothing. So now I'm thinking it's the Guitar Bug (my wireless dealio). I reached down to unplug it and it came apart in two pieces in my hand. The tip needed to be screwed back on. While singing "Not to Us", I was attempting to assemble the guitar bug. At the end of the song I decided to let the congregation go ahead and greet each other....again. Scott put the bug back together and then we moved to the next song. So the problem was supposedly solved. Next song up...King! My first strum was out of tune. Not gonna work for the rest of worship. I ran backstage to tell them that the problem was the Guitar Bug and if they put it together I could use the original guitar (the one out of tune). Once it was fixed and put in the original guitar...it turned out it still wouldn't work. Longer story made just a tad shorter.....turns out I put the fresh battery in the guitar upside down while singing. Positive on negative doesn't work. Yeah...it was a mess. But the good news is that the band held it all together while I ran around trying to solve the problem.
Thanks to Jason our Worship Director and Scott our audio lead who scrambled to help.
So...on to the music list:
- Awesome is the Lord Most High (A) by Chris Tomlin
- Not to Us (A) by Chris Tomlin
- King (E) by Tree63
- Salvation is Here (B) by Hillsong United
- Mighty to Save (A) by Hillsong United
Thanks second service for being patient. Hope we were able to redirect your focus to the Lord...cuz it was a crazy morning!
-Ben
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