Jan
19
Worship Pastor Michael Bleecker provides teaching and insight into one of The Village’s favorite gospel worship songs, “Glorious Day.” If you would like to maximize the video to full screen for easier viewing, mouseover the video and in the bottom right corner you will see the full-screen icon. The video below is also available on The Village Church YouTube Channel.
Watching the video again, I realized I communicated the chords too casually. Here are the actual chords being played:
“A” is “Asus4″
“D” is “Dsus2″
“D/F#” is “Dsus2/F#”
I forgot to add the “Em7″ as well. It’s played during “Rising He justified…”.
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Beautiful song, but, I have a question about the theology.
Living He loved me dying He saved me
Buried He carried my sins far away
Rising He justified freely forever
It appears that the song would suggest that each step (life, death, resurrection) produced a new part of God’s salvation plan, yet, from what I read in the Word, every aspect of God’s salvation was complete on the cross. I would think these lyrics would cause some serious confusion. How do you explain these lyrics to your church?
Great song. Thanks for sharing this, Michael. These are the sorts of tools that are extremely helpful to worship leaders. Much better than a chord chart, for sure.
As for the question posed about theology, i honestly don’t think the song is necessarily proposing any sort of segmented view of salvation. it’s just an artistic, poetic way to walk thru several things that God did as He saved us. There are certainly songs out there that play a little “fast and loose” with theology, and over my 15+ years leading worship, I’ve sifted thru plenty of that. but this one seems solid and biblical to me.
Not everyone will agree with that view, I know.
Again, thanks for sharing this song.
rk
Michael,
Thanks for putting this up. We’ve been singing this for about 8 months now and it’s just a powerful experience whenever we sing it.
@practical, I think it the song is tying in aspects of what Christ did for us rather than making dogmatic statements of what each act accomplished. All of it was accomplished at the cross…which in turn was accomplished before the foundation of the earth. Great question thoough…
Thanks again for the resources…keep ‘em coming…
God bless,
Doug
Thank you so much for posting this! I’m always looking for new songs to exalt Jesus and proclaim the Gospel. This definitely does that! I’ll definitely be playing this song soon!
I’ve been looking for/trying to write a song with this sort of message for a long time. I’ll be introducing this to my team tonight at rehearsal and singing it with the congregation on Sunday. Thanks for this wonderfully poetic, theologically sound piece of art!
.heather.
@practicalworship,
Thank you for the comment. I found it edifying as it encouraged me to think deeply about the words of the song and the truths that I think it is meant to communicate.
I do not think your statement, “every aspect of God’s salvation was complete on the cross,” is entirely accurate. In order to understand the cross, we must understand the incarnation or else the sacrifice of Christ was not sufficient to pay man’s penalty. In order to understand the cross, we must understand the resurrection, for if Christ is still in the ground, our hope is in vain and we are still in our sins (1 Corinthians 15). The cross is the glorious foundation for our faith, but it is not the final installment. We received the Spirit Who orients us back to Christ “who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification” (Romans 4:25) and we eagerly await His return.
We certainly do not wish to communicate that Christ’s love is displayed ONLY in His living, nor that our forgiveness is grounded SOLELY in His burial (no pun intended), nor that our justification is tied MERELY to His resurrection. By His life, death, burial, and resurrection He has manifested His love, saved His people, bore the penalty for their sin and secured their justification. All these elements together form the beautiful mosaic of the gospel.
grace and peace,
geoff ashley
discipleship resource pastor
the village church
It is a beautiful song that tells an even more beautiful story.
Love the song, but leaving the back cover off your Hammond is gonna get your tone wheels dirty, and you don’t want that!
Thanks for sharing.
@practical worship:
I agree with Geoff, Ross and Doug in that I don’t think ‘Glorious Day’ causes any confusion, but I do want to thank you, as Geoff did, for pressing us and making us think about what we’re singing and why we’re singing it. It’s of utmost importance to us to make sure our lyrics teach what the Scriptures teach and nothing more; lyrics that cause no confusion.
I started writing a response, but after reading Geoff’s post, I have nothing further to add other than reiterating the importance of knowing that the incarnation, death and resurrection of Christ are essential in salvation.
A side note:
Watching the video again, I realized I communicated the chords too casually. Here are the actual chords being played:
“A” is “Asus4″
“D” is “Dsus2″
“D/F#” is “Dsus2/F#”
I forgot to add the “Em7″ as well. It’s played during “Rising He justified…”.
I wanted to thank @practical worship, too – I love being challenged to figure out what the words in our songs are teaching the people who are singing them. Thanks for pressing in on that.
Also, if there are any female worship leaders out there who need to transpose “Glorious Day” and still have some sweet chord voicings – it works REALLY well in G!
Again, thanks for sharing this song, Michael. We played it at rehearsal on Tuesday evening and got completely lost in it! I can’t wait to introduce it on Sunday AM.
.heather.
I love taking hymns and singing them to a different or more modern melody. This is not to say that traditional is not good in and of itself. Thanks for sharing the song!
Heather,
thanks so much for your comment and offer. I really want to try and get a girl on these videos as well and teach in another key. Thanks for the idea!
Thanks for all of your comments. It’s a joy to read and to know the Gospel is going out in song to so many.
bleecker
@michael:
Does The Village mainly play songs you or others on the team have written, or is there an even mix?
There’s a pretty good mix. We play a good amount of originals as well as songs written by others outside of The Village. The author of every song can be found at the bottom of every chord/lyric document online.