Worship Matters

1 | Paul Martin

April 29th, 2006 at 9:24 PM

Bob,
We enjoy singing both The Gospel Song and When I Survey the Wondrous Cross up here in Canada, but I was really delighted at how nicely – both musically and theologically – the two fit together in your arrangement! Both songs were “improved” (in that Puritan sense of the word).
And thanks for such able leading, brother. The Lord was gracious to us through you.

2 | James Hollandsworth

April 29th, 2006 at 9:50 PM

Bob,
Thanks for all you did during the Conference, and thanks for posting the song list. The songs had been going through my mind today and I had been playing the ones I had remembered— now I have an Itunes playlist with all of them that I can play whenever God needs to speak to my soul.

3 | Steve Sensenig

April 29th, 2006 at 11:41 PM

I wasn’t there to hear it, and I’m not familiar with the Gospel Song yet. But are you saying you sang those words to the tune of “When I Survey”? They kinda fit, but I wasn’t sure if you meant that, or just that you did a medley of the two songs.

steve :)

4 | marc

April 30th, 2006 at 12:22 AM

Bob,
I liked the music for the most part, but I thought the drums were too loud.

Blessings Bro,
Marc

5 | Gunny

April 30th, 2006 at 1:56 AM

Amen, thanks for posting the song list.

It has enabled me to further ponder the words as my soul was/is stirred to greater affection for the Savior.

6 | Bob Kauflin

April 30th, 2006 at 8:42 AM

Steve,

The Gospel Song has a different melody from When I Survey. Although it almost works to sing it to the same tune…

7 | Lindele

April 30th, 2006 at 3:12 PM

I do love your blog so much, Bob.
My husband and my brother and my pastor were all at T4G – they had a great, great time and were so blessed. While they were there, I kept up by reading Tim Challies’ live blog and I was happy that he kept us informed about not only the speakers’ messages, but also the songs that were sung! And I have to admit that I was encouraged by your technological struggles – it’s not just me who has such challenges!
Our pastor is hoping to take lots more with him to T4G in 2008.

8 | Dan Hames

May 1st, 2006 at 4:07 AM

Hi Bob…

That sounds a grea setlist.

I’d love to get to T4G 2008. Trouble is I’m a poor broke student from the UK. You’ll have to let me know if you want a tea boy next year ;o)

Thanks for your posting from the conference.

Dan

9 | Kyle Carlson

May 1st, 2006 at 10:14 AM

Bob,

The conference was a life-altering experience for me. Not only have I personally been convinced all over again that it is to the Gospel ministry that I wish to give my life, the music we sang together specifically renewed my passion and commitment to Christ-exalting songs in worship. I am a Worship Pastor in the Houston area, and was convicted during the conference about the slapdash way in which I had been preparing music for our worship services – and this from nothing more than simply singing together a host of songs that specifically and poignantly exalted our Lord. Thank you for your wonderful leadership at the conference. I plan to regularly read your blog and use your resources. God bless your work, brother.

Kyle

10 | Adrian Warnock

May 1st, 2006 at 6:12 PM

Any chance of a T4G CD – all those male voices would sound GREAT! Actually, I would love to get ahold of some of these hymns for my iTunes – would be interested in the brother sharing his playlist so I can dowload the versions where possible – sadly tho, I am willing to bet that most of this will not be available to us British iTunes users – almost NO christian music is!!! Thanks SGM for sharing their songs to be downloaded, however as that has been really good. I love the arrangement to “God moves in a mysterious way.”

11 | Matt C.

May 5th, 2006 at 11:25 AM

I heartily second Adrian’s request for the recordings (even the first night’s!) of our worship time at T4G. It was a wholly unique experience for me, and my two boys would benefit mightily from hearing such a thing.

* Plus, some of the old hymns you cannot find in a *decent* rendition.

12 | William Travis

January 8th, 2007 at 4:36 PM

Is there anyway that the songs we actually sang at T4G can be posted, downloaded, purchased, is there any way to get them?

13 | Bob Kauflin

January 8th, 2007 at 5:50 PM

William,

I’m sorry, but the singing wasn’t recorded at Together for the Gospel 2006. I’m checking into it for 2008. Thanks for asking!

14 | Greg Dixon

March 26th, 2008 at 1:45 PM

Bob,

I wasn’t able to attend the 2006 T4G, but I’m looking forward to coming this year. My pastor attended in 2006 and spoke of how moving the worship music was.

You mentioned a verse from “How Sweet and Aweful Is the Place” that you ommitted because of the wording. We have used that verse from Watt’s hymn to great profit with the following modification:

“Here every [mercy] of our God
With soft compassion rolls;
Here peace and pardon bought with blood
Is food for dying souls.”

While the figure of speech is altered somewhat, the sense of it is retained and a meaningful verse restored to the song of the church.

Greg

15 | Matt Freeman

April 10th, 2008 at 11:25 AM

Actually, those verses from Gospel Song have fit well as the chorus when I’ve tried it out.

Good point, it’s not enough to survey the cross, but bring people into a great realization of what the cross did and does as well.