Friday
It sure is quiet without the girls around. It’s sort of refreshing, but I sure do miss them! I’ll be going up to join them in MI Wednesday evening. It looks like I’ll be helping out with the praise team at the Franklin Church of Christ, Friday and Saturday evening for their Worship Celebration. It’s a community event with various worship ministries from the local churches (non C of C's). I think it’s awesome that FCC is sponsoring it. I am amazed at what God is doing in that place. A few years something like that wouldn’t even be considered (I know, I tried :-), but now it’s so natural. It seems as I get older (another blog entirerly, as this weekend is my 10 year high school reunion...is there such thing as a 1/4 life crisis? LOL) my tolerance for the whole "instrumental music" hangup is quickly reaching it's limit. Obviously, with my background with various bands and worship ministries, I have always felt a bit out of place in the C of C...but I digress :-)
I must admit, I sometimes get bummed out that so much changed after I left FCC. I know it didn’t change because I left, just the timing of it all. A few weeks after I left, they had a split and since then have really experienced a freedom. We were over at one of their Shepherd’s house for Halloween and he said, “You would love it now Steven…it’s so much more of the church you wanted.” That makes me super excited to see God at work, but it’s sort of depressing at the same time. Anyone who has gone through something similar can identify I’m sure.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to worshipping in that environment this weekend. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Here’s another entry from our 40 Days Journal. I just love the C.S. Lewis quote below. I’m still chewing on it …
The Heart of Worship
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.” - C.S. Lewis
Have you ever taken one of those personality profiles? Angela and I did as we went through pre-marriage counseling. Needless to say, she still married me :-)! Each and every one of has unique personality. Actually, we use words like unique in describing personalities that really bug us. But isn’t it refreshing to know that God made you, uniquely you, to reflect who He is?
I like to daydream. And one of my dreams is that North Central would be a place where each of us expresses our true personality. What will this look like? I can’t really say. But I know it will be a place where we each express our love to and for God in our own unique way. Ministry will mean much more than participating in a few traditional programs. We’ll use our God-given gifts in teaching, sharing, art, listening, building, music, and countless other ways we never dreamed possible. We won’t all look or act the same, but each of us will be so in love with Christ, that we will truly be ourselves.
- What’s one area of my life where I need to be more “my God-self”?
I must admit, I sometimes get bummed out that so much changed after I left FCC. I know it didn’t change because I left, just the timing of it all. A few weeks after I left, they had a split and since then have really experienced a freedom. We were over at one of their Shepherd’s house for Halloween and he said, “You would love it now Steven…it’s so much more of the church you wanted.” That makes me super excited to see God at work, but it’s sort of depressing at the same time. Anyone who has gone through something similar can identify I’m sure.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to worshipping in that environment this weekend. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Here’s another entry from our 40 Days Journal. I just love the C.S. Lewis quote below. I’m still chewing on it …
The Heart of Worship
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.” - C.S. Lewis
Have you ever taken one of those personality profiles? Angela and I did as we went through pre-marriage counseling. Needless to say, she still married me :-)! Each and every one of has unique personality. Actually, we use words like unique in describing personalities that really bug us. But isn’t it refreshing to know that God made you, uniquely you, to reflect who He is?
I like to daydream. And one of my dreams is that North Central would be a place where each of us expresses our true personality. What will this look like? I can’t really say. But I know it will be a place where we each express our love to and for God in our own unique way. Ministry will mean much more than participating in a few traditional programs. We’ll use our God-given gifts in teaching, sharing, art, listening, building, music, and countless other ways we never dreamed possible. We won’t all look or act the same, but each of us will be so in love with Christ, that we will truly be ourselves.
- What’s one area of my life where I need to be more “my God-self”?
posted by Steven J Bruce @ 1:50 PM
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