A Farmer's Market has kicked off in Timaru on Sunday morning at 9am. They have an aim of having produce from within a 100 km radius.
What would happen if we applied the same rules to our worship? Locally produced songs and prayers? And not at 10am either, as we are all down at the Farmer's market having a coffee, but sometime during the week. What about that?
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
styles or community?
One of the discussions around the traps at the moment is about styles of service. There is a desire to see something rather more than "traditional" worship, whatever that means. What worries me is that people see styles as an optional extra, a difference that will enrich their lives somehow.
I think that authentic worship has to arise out of community. One of the reasons our worship is dry is that we have lost much of a sense of being in community in our attempts to maintain dignity, privacy, individualism, a sense of space, however you want to call it.
Worship that emerges naturally out of a community that journeys together has altogether a different flavor. The challenge is how to equip a community to begin to worship in this way when they are known a period of time where much of the work of worship has been kept from them.
I think that authentic worship has to arise out of community. One of the reasons our worship is dry is that we have lost much of a sense of being in community in our attempts to maintain dignity, privacy, individualism, a sense of space, however you want to call it.
Worship that emerges naturally out of a community that journeys together has altogether a different flavor. The challenge is how to equip a community to begin to worship in this way when they are known a period of time where much of the work of worship has been kept from them.
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