Welcome to Life Connection Church’s first ever congregational songwriting session! The idea is this. We will write a song around a theme and ask everyone in the body to submit a 1 sentence response to a question around that theme. The song’s lyrics will predominantly be made up of these responses. First up we will tackle grace. The question to the body is this…
How has grace changed your life specifically?
Huge question I know, so many aspects to grace so I expect a wonderful wide spectrum of answers. The goal is to answer personally and not generally. An example of a general response would be, “He took this sinner and made me clean“, a personal response would be, “He took my life of drugs and death, and gave me a life of purity and hope.”
You have a few options available to you on how to submit your response.
Remember this needs to be a 1 line response only. Make sure you get involved in this. By God’s grace at the end we’ll have a skillfully crafted song of worship that glorifies God by demonstrating the life saving, transforming, empowering impact of God’s grace in our church body, by our church body. I’m incredibly excited to get started on this and I hope you are as well.
I am full out loving this idea… ok kyle here I go…
His grace made my weakness a blessed place because of the strength that I receive from Him. I was thinking of how many people including myself do not like being weak so we pretend that we are strong. But scripture shows us that his grace is sufficent and His strength is made perfect in our weakness. So I was thinking along the lines of how my weakness is a place grace has blessed with strength.
I lie weak in hands of grace and receive strength.
Aaron:
That last line you wrote is powerful. This is gonna be awesome!
Here’s a couple more submissions that were emailed, leaving out their names in case they desire anonymity:
“God knows how to reach me deep inside; and it’s a feeling I can’t untie.”
“Saved from my self destructive ways and showing me His way.”
Pain, tears and fears my life once would deal. He showed me His heart so I could heal.
Shame welcomed my sin, but it was Your grace that lifted me up.
In my self hate I gave myself away just to rid seeing myself full of shame and pain.
But Your Grace oh God came softly to me and drew me by love and made me free.
His desire (His love, intimacy) for me has drowned out the religious view I had of Him.
A life of mistakes and pain dramatically transformed by a hand of grace, a hand to big to maintain, to understand, to comprehend, that’s Jesus, my King.
[It's the example of His presance that gives me a reason to overcome my past.]
By his grace he has spared my life, literally.