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Access digital exclusive resources including: music, sermon outlines, and interactive artistic expressions.
Additional resources for all categories are available in the downloadable Compelling Worship workbook.
Music
Facilitating a Shared BIC Identity Through Music
We’ve selected five songs centered on Pursuing Peace to serve as a resource for musical worship and as a catalyst for new creativity and imagination. For each featured song we’ve provided all the information you need to use it in your next worship service, including:
- links to download chord charts and lead sheets (some free!)
- optimal keys
- licensing coverage
- recordings
Access Song Recommendations & Resources
Drive Out the Darkness
D. Marotta/I. Wardell/J. Swinton/P. Zach
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: C, D, Eb, E, F
Licensing Coverage: CCLI
Chart/Lead Sheet: Compelling Worship
Recording(s): Lament Songs (Porter’s Gate)
Father Let Your Kingdom Come
B. Cooper/I. Wardell/L. Alattas/L. Vice/M. Cunningham
Song Perspective: Personal/Corporate
Optimal Keys: F, G
Licensing Coverage: CCLI
Chart/Lead Sheet: Compelling Worship
Recording(s): Work Songs (Porter’s Gate), Declared (Hope College)
He Reigns
DJay Martin
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: Bb, C, D
Licensing Coverage: Used with permission
Chart/Lead Sheet: Compelling Worship
Recording(s):He Reigns (DJay Martin), Compelling Worship (Towel and Basin Worship Collective)
Peace You Bought
D. Trout/H. Niesley
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: Bb, C, D
Licensing Coverage: Used with permission
Chart/Lead Sheet: Compelling Worship
Recording(s): Peace You Bought (Trout/Niesley), Compelling Worship (Towel and Basin Worship Collective)
The Kingdom is Yours
A. Keyes/B. Spencer/M. Massey/T. Wilson
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: D, Eb, E, F, G
Licensing Coverage: CCLI
Chart/Lead Sheet: CCLI, commonhymnal
Recording(s): Common Hymnal (Massey/Flanigan)
Additional Songs
Kingdom of Jesus (Jon Guerra), Instrument of Peace (Porter’s Gate), Let Us Be Known By Our Love (M. Massey), Reign of Mercy (Porter’s Gate), World Needs Jesus (River Valley Worship), Your Peace Will Make Us One (Audrey Assad)
Word
Teaching and Studying Our BIC Core Values
The act of reading Scripture together is itself an experience of God’s love, through which we preach to our hearts the good news of Jesus, and reshape our experience of the world around this reality. Through sermons, teaching, and corporate study, our core values move from being abstract ideas to convictions written on the hearts of each one of us. These sermon outlines are designed to equip churches to teach and study through our BIC core values.
The outlines for Pursuing Peace begin on page 90 and include:
- Christ Our Peace | Ephesians 2:11-22
- Peace in a Hostile World | Luke 6:27-36
- The Harmony of Christ | Colossians 3:12-17
Art
Engaging All Five Senses
A survey of God’s creation reveals works that engage all five of our senses. Yet, when we engage in corporate worship, we tend to rely on only one or two senses. What if we broke out of the mold and engaged all five senses God has created?
These ideas are meant to give you a starting place to explore new ways to worship. Use your creativity to adapt them to your specific setting and context. Involve all generations in exploring these ideas together!
Liturgical Dance
Work with any dancers in your congregation to create a liturgical dance set to music. On the topic of peace you might consider songs such as ”Instrument of Peace,” “It Is Well With My Soul,” “Peace Be Still,” “He Is Worthy,” and “Peace” (by Bethel).
Here is an example of a liturgical dance done with live music. Recorded music could also be used.