Responding to an email alert from a musician needing some missions theme songs for a church missions conference, the AD2000 Movement Worship and Arts Network is at work preparing a 25-song resource to help meet this need. Along with lead sheets of the songs, there will be an accompanying demo CD to help teach the songs. The Network seeks to network, mobilize and resource music and arts ministries in many parts of the world. The songs will challenge, inspire, and most of all, celebrate what God is doing throughout the earth. Worship is the harp referenced in Revelation 5.
Intercession is the bowl.
One of the best contemporary examples of the merger of the harp and the bowl is the international March for Jesus. It is an excellent blend of corporate celebration, repentance and petition. Contrary to traditional opinion, there is no law that all verses of a hymn must be used. In fact, if a theme is being developed, very often only one or two verses pertain to that theme. If a theme provides direction for the songs being selected, the juxtaposition of hymns and choruses need not be stylistically jarring.