Journey worship (playlist, etc.)
17 02 2008Several of the people who visit anewdoxology each day get here by following a link on the Journey webpage. Journey is the worship service that I helped start last month at a church in Golden Valley, Minnesota (a suburb of Minneapolis). We worship on Sundays at 5:00pm and if any of you live in the Minneapolis area and would like to experience something different than what most churches offer on Sunday mornings, you should check it out. You can read what I wrote about Journey, or go to the Journey webpage for more information (including directions and a link to podcast sermons).
We have a lot of fun “doing church” a bit differently at Journey, including the music, messages and overall worship “style.” We realize that not everyone is immersed in the Christian sub-culture (music, media, books, etc.), and we also realize that when people come to worship — or a concert for that matter — their level of comfortability is often influenced by how familiar they are with the music. If they know the songs, they feel right at home; but if they’ve never heard the songs before, they might feel uncomfortable and out of place.
The last thing we want to do at Journey is create an uncomfortable atmosphere where people don’t feel like they can connect in worship. So, as a small step to help people connect, I created a playlist on iTunes of all the songs we’ve used in worship at Journey (so far). These are not recordings of Ben and the worship band, but the original versions of the songs that we borrowed for worship. You can download the songs for $0.99 each and burn them onto a CD, put them on your iPod/mp3 player or just listen to them on your computer. The thought is that if we are more familiar with the music, we will feel more comfortable in worship and be able to sing together with confidence. Our hope is that these songs will become anthems for our community and a soundtrack for our lives.
Here’s a link to the “Journey: fresh worship” playlist on 
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Note: if you don’t have iTunes, click here to download it for free.
Are the podcasts up yet? I want to be part of this service even though I’m in Michigan!
There’s a link to the Journey podcast on calvary.org/journey.
If you don’t have iTunes (or don’t do podcasts), there’s also a link to stream the sermon audio from Calvary’s website.
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Thank you! I’d been keeping an eye out for them, but wasn’t having any luck finding them. I’m excited to listen!
Brilliant!
Thank you for the introduction to Journey. I’m curious to check it out.