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It helps to have a clear idea of the outcome you desire or what you hope to achieve. Once that is established, you need to list all of the options at your disposal, even the ones you think are bad, even the ones that you believe will result in the worst consequences.
I don’t think there’s one “silver bullet,” as they say, but I think that we can be bolder about some of our worship practices. If we are willing to “go big” on some central practices, they can help us have both a strong center and an open door.
Christ confesses in his Phil. 2 hymn that every knee that bows brings glory to God the Father.
We, the people of this common space of earth, were created by a communal God. Who do we think we are, so often going it alone?
If Holy Thursday teaches us anything, it’s that Jesus is in the business of putting souls back together that have been torn apart by grief and fear.
The Bible portrays time as a series of connected loops, each one taking us back to the past, even as it moves us into the future.
Sharing communion each week calls us back to the path we chose when we committed our lives to Jesus.
Lately I have found a practice that has enhanced my sense of community as I partake. I spend my communion time looking at the people around me.
We reflect on what God has provided for us by our observance of the Lord’s Supper as instructed in Scripture. Though the usual method was broken that Sunday, the overall meaning was the same.
We are forgetful creatures who need rituals and celebrations to mark the time and place where something happened.
Greeting others when we gather for worship may seem unimportant, but it participates in the substance of who we are as God’s family.
