text-fessional for October 21st at FWBF Fuel Sr. High Ministry.

I started this week off echoing some words I read a few weeks ago that have really stuck with me. Its time we rethink our priorities and stop putting Jesus first in our lives. Often we talk about Jesus first, then family, friends, work, school, etc etc etc... but the problem is it's a mindset puts Him on a checklist. As with all checklists, when you're done with item #1, you move on to number 2... so we get through with Jesus and move on with life... this obviously isn't what Christ intended when he said "seek first the kingdom of God." We need to put Jesus as the center of our lives so it becomes Jesus IN our family and IN our friendships and IN our social lives and IN our workplace... thanks, steven, for the inspiration... it seemed to hit home with the youth.

Naturally, this lead perfectly into our first song:

Be The Center (Frye) - D - I loved this song even before the paradigm shift mentioned above. So simple yet can certainly speak so clearly. We keep it pretty laid back with a lot of bass from both the bassist (Travis) and on my acoustic. There was some build each time we got to the chorus but nothing too crazy.

All To You (Brewster) - E - This was probably the weakest song in tonight's set because it didn't work well with the new experiment we... uh... experimented with. Instead of having drums, we had a percussion section.Logan set up two floor toms, two congas, a smaller tom and a cymbol, all played with hot rods. Overall tonight I really really liked the outcome of this, but it didn't work as well with this song as the others. We all agreed, but still made it work. My guitar sounded a little quiet from the stage, so that was another minus on this one. We had a good time with it, but it just didn't flow as well as it normally does.

Indescribable (Tomlin) - F#m - As we always do, its a full step lower to make it easier on me and the congregation. It went pretty well... During practice, after we realized how weak All To You sounded, I was a bit nervous about how this one would turn out. You'd think such a drum driven song would have suffered with our set up, but it actually worked very nicely. Josh did an excellent job on electric with this one. I'd venture to say this may have been his best over all week, which is really saying something considering he's got very nice chops. The last two weeks especially, he has really made strides as a worship musician as opposed to just a musician with mad chops that happens to worship.

Surrender (McRoberts (Vineyard)) - G - Again, like Be the Center, this is one of my all time favs. We kinda do a typical acoustic version with a little of the Brewster version mixed in. We had a time of reflection after the normal progression of the song which went nicely.

We also had the blessing of a recently reorganized sound system that sounded better and was more intuitive to our room. Its something the Jr. High worship leader and I had been trying to get together on for a while, but he gave up trying to get me up there and just did it himself. So, props to him.

How'd your sunday go? (feel free to link to your confessional in the comments)