Worship through Music

Musical worship is such a hot issue. I just went through and made a chart of every song our church has done in the last 6 months, and the dates we've done them. Some say too many new songs, others say too many hymns. We've done 2 new songs in 6 months (none too many in my book), and 30% of our songs have been hymns.

I have led worship once every 3 weeks with our "youth band" (that simply means our high school students who play an instrument or will sing up front) for a couple years now. They are going at it without me now (and yesterday was their first day without me). They are doing a fantastic job - I don't know why I didn't let them do it alone sooner.

Here are the top 25 songs according to CCLI (the copyright licensing place that churches use and report to). The list comes out twice a year, and this is the new one. You can access this list and check out the top 25 songs for different countries here. WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 3 OR 5 SONGS?

1	Here I Am To Worship	Hughes, Tim
2	How Great Is Our God	Tomlin, Chris \ Reeves, Jesse \ Cash, Ed
3	Blessed Be Your Name	Redman, Beth \ Redman, Matt
4	Open The Eyes Of My Heart	Baloche, Paul
5	Come Now Is The Time To Worship	Doerksen, Brian
6	Shout To The Lord	Zschech, Darlene
7	Forever	Tomlin, Chris
8	You Are My King	Foote, Billy
9	Lord I Lift Your Name On High	Founds, Rick
10	Holy Is The Lord	Tomlin, Chris \ Giglio, Louie
11	God Of Wonders	Byrd, Marc \ Hindalong, Steve
12	Breathe	Barnett, Marie
13	You're Worthy Of My Praise	Ruis, David
14	Trading My Sorrows	Evans, Darrell
15	We Fall Down	Tomlin, Chris
16	The Heart Of Worship	Redman, Matt
17	You Are My All In All	Jernigan, Dennis
18	I Give You My Heart	Morgan, Reuben
19	Draw Me Close	Carpenter, Kelly
20	Above All	LeBlanc, Lenny \ Baloche, Paul
21	Better Is One Day	Redman, Matt
22	Lord Reign In Me	Brown, Brenton
23	Beautiful One	Hughes, Tim
24	Days Of Elijah	Mark, Robin
25	Give Thanks	Smith, Henry