Hillsong's "With Everything"

[antparrott]

Hi, all! This is my first post on here...glad to be here!

I was just curious if anyone had any experience with teaching Hillsong's "With Everything" to a congregation. It's a fairly challenging song if you're not a professional singer and I was curious what churches have done with it to make it accessible to the average congregant.

For context, we are an American church in Northwest Iowa. About 600 people attend our worship gatherings; we have a "contemporary" band (multiple guitars, drums, all that) and a congregation that really enjoys new music and - once comfortable with a song - can really "get into" worship. The congregation though sometimes is hesitant at singing very loud or clapping without direct instructions/example from the platform.

Thanks for your thoughts.

[Wannabe a Worshiper]

This is a pretty wordy song, and, as you said, it is challenging.

I think the best way to start, after the team has performed it at least once, is to have a soloist sing the verses, and teach the congregation the pre-chorus and choruses. Once they know them, encourage them to sing along on the verses, too.

VERSE 1:
Open our eyes
To see the things that make Your heart cry
To be the church that You would desire
Your light to be seen

VERSE 2:
Break down our pride
And all the walls we’ve built up inside
Our earthly crowns and all our desires
We lay at Your feet

PRE CHORUS:
Let hope rise
And darkness tremble
In Your holy light
That every eye will see
Jesus our God
Great and mighty to be praised

VERSE 3:
God of all days
Glorious in all of Your ways
Oh the majesty the wonder and grace
In the light of Your Name

CHORUS:
With everything
With everything
We will shout for Your glory
With everything
With everything
We will shout forth Your praise

CHORUS 2:
Our hearts they cry
Be glorified
Be lifted high above all names
For You our King
With everything
We will shout forth Your praise

This is a great song. It would fit my church very well right now, as some in our body don't want to follow where the Lord is leading the church.

Tom

[Bryan]

We've done that one! It's become a really power song in our congregation. I think we actually did this one as a "special music" selection once and said explicitly that we were going to do this one again in a few weeks, but before they started learning it, we wanted to sing it "over them" where they could experience what it sounded like, see the words without having to sing them, and get them familiar with the parts. It seemed to work because the next time we did it, they pretty music just took off with it. People, it seems, have a harder time learning a new song if they go into it cold, but this was a good primer.

[milepost13]

We use this song. Can't say that everyone sings it, but that doesn't mean it's not a useful song.

Nate

[kristamiller86]

We do it! So good