By Robert Wright
Music Minister, Ludden Chapel Baptist Church
We Don’t Play the Title
Sunday at Ludden Chapel, Rev. Marcus Davis preached “Another Way” from Mark 5 — the woman who had bled twelve years and spent everything she had on physicians who left her worse than they found her. And I will be honest with you: I had a whole bench of songs ready.
When a sermon carries a phrase like another way, the way-maker songs line up quick. I could feel the room leaning toward them. I had a breakthrough song warmed up too — the kind that lifts a house believing today is their day.
A minister of music does not play the title. We play the landing.
So I waited. Davis moved us from the crowd to the contact. He reminded us that the whole multitude pressed against Jesus, yet only one woman drew power out of Him — because proximity is not connection. You can crowd the Lord for years and never touch Him. She touched Him. And He felt it leave His body.
When he came down, he did not come down on provision, and he did not come down on the charge to go reach folks — though he grazed both. He came down on her wholeness. Thy faith hath made thee whole.
That is why we closed with “He Touched Me.” Not because it fit the subject, but because it finished his sentence. The hymn lands where he landed — made me whole — and it puts that confession in the mouth of everybody who ever pressed through a crowd just to reach the hem.
Hear me, song leaders: the program is a guide, not a cage. Read where he sets it down. Then hand the people the song that lets them say what the sermon just did to them.
