making room for the spirit in worship
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Making room for the Spirit in worship. Worship, praise, adoration and thanksgiving are excessive, unnecessary and over the top! God does not need worship. Our salvation does not depend upon it. In many ways churches would be more efficient, practical and useful without it… - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Making room for the Spirit in worship
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Worship, praise, adoration and thanksgiving are excessive, unnecessary and over the top!
God does not need worship. Our salvation does not depend upon it.
In many ways churches would be more efficient, practical and useful without it…
Rev Peter Lawrence
But God loves it!
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Christian worship is… ‘the most momentous, the most urgent, the most glorious action that can take place in human life’. Karl Barth
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“Worship is the occasion when men and women become truly alive, when we humans, made in the image of God, begin to fulfill the very purpose of our existence by relating to the God who made us….
...It is in worship that heaven invades our world, and we discover ourselves in the presence of Almighty God. What an experience! What a privilege!”
Paul Beasley-Murray, Faith and Festivity
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Order vs Freedom
“...the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”
Romans 8 v15-16
“Let us keep in step with the Spirit” Galatians 5 v25
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“Worship is God’s anaesthetic to change our lives... To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change.”
Richard Foster, The Celebration of Discipline
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Worship with our whole being:“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
with all your soul, and with all your might” Deut 6:5
Physical
and emotional!
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Freedom in worship
“Everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way...” 1 Corinthians 14:40
“...be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues” v39
A “Kairos” Moment
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“We worship God because we know Him to be worthy of worship, and because He both desires and enables us to offer it. In our worship God often takes what we are trying to give Him, no matter how inadequately, transforms it and makes of it a gift to us. We think we are doing one thing, only to find that God has turned the tables on us and given us much more than we have been able to give to Him. This is His nature and character.”
In Tune with Heaven – The Report of the Archbishops’ Commission on Church Music
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“Sing to the LORD a new song” Psalm 96:1
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“Singing in the Spirit by-passes the rational faculties... ...Such praise is direct, spontaneous and simple. It escapes from complicated conceptuality and a second hand dependence on such liturgical resources as prayer-books and hymn-books, and responds in immediacy and freedom to the contact with the living Lord that the Spirit makes possible...”
Tom Smail, Charismatic Renewal, The search for a Theology
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The prophetic dimension
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Make room for the Spirit
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planning for growth in the urc
booklets & workshops
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Let us ask for God’s forgiveness..Let us ask for God’s forgiveness..
When we ignore you and go our own wayWhen we ignore you and go our own wayLord have mercy:Lord have mercy: Lord have mercy.Lord have mercy.
When we forget your presence with us, When we forget your presence with us, and become like dry bones,and become like dry bones,Christ have mercy: Christ have mercy: Christ have mercy.Christ have mercy.
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When we do things in our own strength When we do things in our own strength and not yours, and not yours, Lord have mercy: Lord have mercy: Lord have MercyLord have Mercy..
Father forgive usFather forgive us through the death of Jesus, your Son,through the death of Jesus, your Son,and strengthen us to live in the power of your and strengthen us to live in the power of your Holy Spirit today and every day. Holy Spirit today and every day. AmenAmen
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What is your experience of freedom in worship?A good experience?
A bad experience?
Should we try and create more space for God to move – if so, how?
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Heavenly Father, thank you for the Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of your Holy Spirit. gift of your Holy Spirit. Please fill us with your breath Please fill us with your breath and power every day, and power every day, so that everyone may so that everyone may see through us that see through us that Jesus Christ is Saviour Jesus Christ is Saviour of the world. of the world. AmenAmen