“We value serving others at their point of need, following the example of our Lord Jesus.”
Access digital exclusive resources including: music, sermon outlines, and worship practices.
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 Serving Compassionately 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
Christ Before and Christ Beneath
S. Crissman/I. DuBose/B. Leaman
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: Bb, C, D
Licensing Coverage: Used with permission
Chart/Lead Sheet: Compelling Worship
Recording(s): Compelling Worship (Towel and Basin Worship Collective)
Humble King/Alma Hambrienta
B. Brown
Song Perspective: Personal
Optimal Keys: D, E, F
Licensing Coverage: CCLI, Multitracks.com
Chart/Lead Sheet: CCLI, praisecharts
Recording(s): A Christmas Celebration (Vineyard Worship) ; Alma Hambrienta (Adoración Viña)
Love That is True
S. Crissman/G. Bonifant
Song Perspective: Personal/Corporate
Optimal Keys: G, A, Bb
Licensing Coverage: Used with permission
Chart/Lead Sheet: Compelling Worship
Recording(s): Compelling Worship (Towel and Basin Worship Collective)
The Compassion Hymn
K. Getty/K. Getty/S. Townend
Song Perspective: Corporate
Optimal Keys: C, D
Licensing Coverage: CCLI, Multitracks.com
Chart/Lead Sheet: CCLI, praisecharts
Recording(s): Live At The Gospel Coalition (Keith and Kristen Getty)
The Servant Song
R. Gillard
Song Perspective: Personal/Corporate
Optimal Keys: Bb, C, D
Licensing Coverage: CCLI, OneLicense
Chart/Lead Sheet: CCLI, onelicense
Recording(s): Cornerstone (John Niven)
Additional Songs
Dame Tus Ojos (Marcela Gandera), God of Justice (Tim Hughes), Less Like Me (Zach Williams), Make Me a Servant (Kelly Willard), Multiply Your Love (Andy Park), Make Us O God a Church That Shares (#296 HPW*), Send Me (Brandon Lake), This is Our God (Chris Tomlin).
*Hymns for Praise and Worship © 1984 Evangel Press
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 Serving Compassionately begin on page 78 and include:
- Love in Action | Romans 12:9-21
- Serving the Least | Matthew 25:31-46
- Towel and Basin | John 13:1-17
Practices
From Spectators to Active Participants
These practices aim to whet our spiritual appetites with many different practices that can help us to live lives of worship with our church families. Some practices may seem out of your comfort zone as a congregation, but you may be surprised to observe the reactions that come from trying something unexpected in the life of the church. There is so much beauty in seeing a congregation transform from a group of spectators to active participants in meaningful worship.
BIC U.S. World Missions Short-Term Trip
Participate in a short-term mission trip. BIC U.S. offers opportunities to serve people from a Muslim background in Dearborn, MI., to serve in Colombia at a Christian school’s VBS, or serving refugees in a refugee camp in Greece. There are countless options available for churches that desire to make serving together a normal part of their congregation’s DNA.