Sunday, November 30, 2003
Rock and Roll Sunday
Today if you attended our church, you would have been "Smacked" upside the head with good old fashion rock and roll.
Andy who is our worship pastor, stood this Sunday different then most other Sundays. He stood with a red electric guitar at his waist. He stood with purpose. The purpose to rock!
A mad man by the name of Garret played the drums. The guy was incredible. The dude was all over the kit and he added a couple of knotches to the normal intensity of Sunday morning worship.
Ron who is a rocker through and through also played electric guitar.
I myself had the pleasure and honor to play this Sunday morning acoustic rhythm.
Andy started off the set slow, finger picking the first course of Let the River Flow and then Smack! It was on. The band exploded with energy. I don't think first service was ready for the tidal wave of sound that hit them this morning.
Second service was much more wake and in tune to the music. The coolest part about this morning was we played U2's Desire as a special song. That rocked!
We also played a slow version of Amazing Grace. It almost sounded like House of the Rising Sun. At the end of the song, we were suppose to pause and then Garrett would count four times with his drum sticks and lead us back into an upbeat, fast pace rendition of the the first 2 verses again. In second service he forgot to lead us back in, so Andy just sang and played even slower by himself. When Garrett realized his mistake, he told us we were going to come in on his count. Right when Andy was about to end the song, Garrett banged his drum sticks together four times and we were off and running.
Audrey said she could tell that we had messed up on Amazing Grace. I asked her how she knew. She said "I could tell by the look on your face, and how you were looking at everybody." She said if I just played it cool, she would of never of noticed. Hopefully she was the only one who noticed my short panicked state.
Another funny part of this morning was during Russ' sermon. Russ was talking about his 94 Arostar van. He said "it's a piece of..." He said Piece of junk 1st services but left it hanging second services. Crap came to my mind when he left it hanging. Later Russ said he heard some snickers and wondered what word they had put on the other end of Piece.
Today if you attended our church, you would have been "Smacked" upside the head with good old fashion rock and roll.
Andy who is our worship pastor, stood this Sunday different then most other Sundays. He stood with a red electric guitar at his waist. He stood with purpose. The purpose to rock!
A mad man by the name of Garret played the drums. The guy was incredible. The dude was all over the kit and he added a couple of knotches to the normal intensity of Sunday morning worship.
Ron who is a rocker through and through also played electric guitar.
I myself had the pleasure and honor to play this Sunday morning acoustic rhythm.
Andy started off the set slow, finger picking the first course of Let the River Flow and then Smack! It was on. The band exploded with energy. I don't think first service was ready for the tidal wave of sound that hit them this morning.
Second service was much more wake and in tune to the music. The coolest part about this morning was we played U2's Desire as a special song. That rocked!
We also played a slow version of Amazing Grace. It almost sounded like House of the Rising Sun. At the end of the song, we were suppose to pause and then Garrett would count four times with his drum sticks and lead us back into an upbeat, fast pace rendition of the the first 2 verses again. In second service he forgot to lead us back in, so Andy just sang and played even slower by himself. When Garrett realized his mistake, he told us we were going to come in on his count. Right when Andy was about to end the song, Garrett banged his drum sticks together four times and we were off and running.
Audrey said she could tell that we had messed up on Amazing Grace. I asked her how she knew. She said "I could tell by the look on your face, and how you were looking at everybody." She said if I just played it cool, she would of never of noticed. Hopefully she was the only one who noticed my short panicked state.
Another funny part of this morning was during Russ' sermon. Russ was talking about his 94 Arostar van. He said "it's a piece of..." He said Piece of junk 1st services but left it hanging second services. Crap came to my mind when he left it hanging. Later Russ said he heard some snickers and wondered what word they had put on the other end of Piece.
