All Longing

I often marvel at live music performances. Not just the wonder of sound and sense that so enraptures audiences but the gaudy sense of other we have at understanding the audience/performer dichotomy. We long for something other. As though the sense of vapor in our life held an instinct of the eternal. the hypnotic energy of live music is something I think about all the time. There is a worship in the moment, there's a stage of elevation and the things on that stage are to be objects of awe and wonder. They are to inspire, they are there for us and yet we are there for them.

There is a longing in a stage show. And there is not enough longing in a church service. There is a great deal of debate, controversy and expectation around the liturgy of a church. I have been so blessed by a church with fluid and flexible liturgy. I have also truly been encouraged by the traditional liturgical church calendar. These elements represent to mea source of empowerment in bringing to light my essential purpose for church services.

The purpose in short is to tell the story of God. The story of God cannot be boring. It must contain a sense of longing and a spark of imagination. there must be surprise, as well as met expectation. In short, we must rethink how we do church business as usual, for this story and ours are most unusual.