A time to evaluate

When I was at a meeting the other day with Helen (my Junior Church co-leader), John (Church Leader) and Jim (Church Elder) about the future of Junior Church we strayed off the point for a time and I started talking about worship in church. I said:

It feels like one of those periods again where I’m re-evaluating our worship times, maybe to stay exactly where we are but to know we’re still meant to be there

I think its been triggered by Dan’s postings on the subject recently which I’ve been half paying attention too (with the intention of re-reading them when I have more head-space). Dan, lend me the book, I’ve finished “Confessions of a reformission Rev.” so you can have that to take on holiday as you wished.

Most of my thinking about the worship of God return again and again to me looking at my life, my 7-days-a-week life and saying: “Where is the still small voice?”. I’m lucky enough to have 3 great kids but man to they leave little room for the still small voice. I think that more effort is required on my part to create more “efficiency” in my life and then use the gained time for hearing from God. Dan’s begun also looking at our corporate worship too (though he didn’t get far with that thought!) and the dilemma I can see getting into is that if all our members have great personal worship lives then there are no issues with those times we meet because you just get an explosion of praise. However, when the personal times are screwy of course the corporate times will be too and no end of changes to the structure will fix that.

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