Today I walked the kids home from Butterfield, and we squished our way across some open fields, jumped a small creek, and exclaimed at the clear sky and warm sun in the company of neighbors and friends. It was a liberating moment. These past few weeks the snow and darkness have gotten us out of our rhythms, often in good ways, sometimes in difficult ways. I’d like to encourage each of you, as you are planning this month, to set your weekly clocks to the rhythm of worship. Habits form us. They shape how we think, and make us who we are. We desire to be a people who worship God, and connect people to God through the gospel of Christ. Let’s make a basic faith commitment to worship weekly. This Sunday, for example, we bless and thank our many volunteers, sponsors share the creed with our catechumens, and we celebrate the artistic gifts of our congregation at Higher Grounds during the education hour. Many Christians, when they have established weekly worship as a basic pattern in their life, also desire to worship even more often than once a week. As one opportunity to deepen worship life, during Lent we host weekly mid-week soup suppers at 6 p.m. followed by evening prayer at 6:45 p.m. Build community around a shared meal with us, then pray and sing. It is an excellent pattern. It is good for the soul. If we approach Christian worship in the same way we approached that spring walk—traipsing through a world alive with God’s presence, joyously singing out our joy at the Son—it will make us into the people we long to be, the people God sees us as in Christ.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:47:17 +0000
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