Have you ever been caught singing through the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing," run into the word Ebenezer, and thought to yourself "What is an Ebenezer and why am I raising mine?" Its a very valid question because you don't find the ole ebenezer very often in todays vocabulary. I love the hymn Come Thou Fount and wanted to incorporate it this week where I lead worship, but I didn't want folks to feel ignorant of what an Ebenezer was as we sang it.....SOO I made this slide to show on the screens between the first and second verses.
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amen to that.
Whenever we sing this on Sunday mornings I sing "here I raise my Ebenezer" as more of a question. And I do think, "what the heck is a Ebenezer?"
This was very thought provoking and informative. Thanks for taking the time to explain what weird words to songs mean... especially since you will be leading a group of people this Sunday in corporate worship through song. I am sure those at Calvary will appreciate this.
Darn, I thought it had something to do with Ebenezer Scrooge!
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