Worship
WORSHIP
Our senior pastor this morning shared about the small group that he and his wife are hosting, how the Holy Spirit is moving in and through people and they are encouraging one another and they are able to be real and share their hurts and their fears and their needs, and then have those needs met by the others. And I thought, “this is a better picture of the church than what I see on Sunday mornings.”
What if Sunday morning has become obsolete? Is this what the church should be? What is the place of the Sunday morning service in the body of Christ? Maybe God is not working there anymore. That may be an overstatement, but have we limited God so much with our idea of what it means to be a church and what worship is that He is moving and breathing in people’s lives elsewhere? Are people changed or equipped to be Christ to the world on a Sunday Morning?
Let’s say that Sunday morning is no longer the model, and that God is saying to find a new model. Would we have the courage to follow the Spirit’s leading? I’m not really seeing it. I think we really need to be seeking God’s direction. What is the point of Sunday Morning? Why are we here?
By the way, I like to ask hard questions.
Our senior pastor this morning shared about the small group that he and his wife are hosting, how the Holy Spirit is moving in and through people and they are encouraging one another and they are able to be real and share their hurts and their fears and their needs, and then have those needs met by the others. And I thought, “this is a better picture of the church than what I see on Sunday mornings.”
What if Sunday morning has become obsolete? Is this what the church should be? What is the place of the Sunday morning service in the body of Christ? Maybe God is not working there anymore. That may be an overstatement, but have we limited God so much with our idea of what it means to be a church and what worship is that He is moving and breathing in people’s lives elsewhere? Are people changed or equipped to be Christ to the world on a Sunday Morning?
Let’s say that Sunday morning is no longer the model, and that God is saying to find a new model. Would we have the courage to follow the Spirit’s leading? I’m not really seeing it. I think we really need to be seeking God’s direction. What is the point of Sunday Morning? Why are we here?
By the way, I like to ask hard questions.
posted by Kurt Prond at 4/04/2006 08:59:00 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the response. I've continued thinking on this, and also agree that there is something amazing about communal worship, provided it actually happens. I think so often, even though we are gathered together as a body, there are still a lot of individuals out there, connecting with God on their own. And that's certainly not a bad thing, but it means that we are not connecting with God as a body. I think this is where a lot of the selfishness in worship("I didn't like that song, why can't we sing that a little faster")comes from.
We are all unique individuals, and we respond to different things in different ways. For me, some of the most worshipful moments are when I'm witnessing a Thunderstorm, in awe of the beauty and power of God. For others it's different. So we need to know how we connect to God and be able to do that individually with him, and then when we come together as a body, we're not expecting everything to be taylored around our needs. We can truly weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn.
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