Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Painful

This is the most belabored way of redescribing the exact same church service. Why the need to be different?

Each week in our time together expect to worship through various expressions such as singing, writing, stillness, etc. You can expect the reading and teaching of the Scriptures. You can expect the reception of the Eucharist and to eat together at the conclusion of the first gathering of each month. Most weeks we are intentional to create a space for collective learning where those present may share what exactly God is doing in them that may be of help to the entire community. Our hope is that these elements allow our time together to be participatory as we experience what it means to be the church.

So they sing together, there is a sermon, and oh by the way, if you want, you can ask questions, and there will probably be an awkward time where you gather into groups of four and "discuss" a question like "What does the incarnational aspect of Jesus's missional living invade the dominant paradigms of the Religious order?"

2 Comments:

Blogger Bentley said...

It is interesting how remarkably similar church services tend to be--despite our best attempts to make them different

5:55 PM

 
Blogger Eric Cepin said...

Also fun to see people attempt to describe them in different ways.

5:51 PM

 

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