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Got this email today:
Hey Grant & Rowland (I mean, Dudes … sorry),Yesterday was a really special service. Thank you for taking the time to prayerfully consider how to present the discipline of prayer.
Grant, I really appreciated your honesty re: the struggles you have in prayer and in your time with the Lord. This hit home with me. It helped to put some words to one thing in particular that I struggle with in my prayer life.
Rowland, the extended time for prayer/reflection was a critical piece of the service. I’m so glad we didn’t have some really good instruction and then leave w/o an opportunity to reflect and put it into practice.
What a neat email. Especially given how we structured the service and really asked folks to engage outside their comfort zones.
I shared some disconnected thoughts on prayer then just invited us all to just do it. There really isn’t a lot to learn. Just do it.
So we had a prayer canvas station, a letters to God table, a Katrina table, the front steps were covered with bread and juice cups for communion while prayers of saints were scrolling on power point.
We just gave space for people to connect with God. It is was rich.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Wayne // Sep 6, 2005 at 4:23 pm
I couldn’t have written a better e-mail myself –for those reading, no, I didn’t write the one in the blog above. In fact, in my journal I noted the way I really liked the fact we got to practice what was preached. I’m not opposed to the thought of all services having some degree of this sort of interaction. I think it would stretch both the body and the leadership. LOL, of course, it might run some of them off!
Keep on, Grant!
2 Rob // Sep 8, 2005 at 3:32 pm
Grant, the topic of prayer and the challenges of being a prayerful pastor must have been the topic for Sunday! Check out the Studio page on http://www.mosaicchurch.net and listen to Mark’s message called “Let Us Begin With Prayer”.
God is at work!
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3 CL // Sep 8, 2005 at 4:35 pm
Nice! Those do feel good to get!
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