Sounds like a big week. I wanted to comment on the baby dedication vocabulary. We have all but eliminated the Sunday morning dedications. We encourage these dedications to happen in our iGroups where the rubber actually hits the road relationally. Our motivation is not to clear something from our Sunday program but to bring a more intimate dimension to the family dedication as you put it. Its more meaningful and in my opinion it has teeth! What do you think?
inWorship
· 1 year ago
How exactly do you guys do communion right now? We do it every service every weekend. It is kind of one of the theings we have chosen to always do at our church, but I am curious how you guys pull it off, cause we are always looking for ways to improve how we do it.
alex
· 1 year ago
John - I like the idea of doing it in a small group setting. The only thing I really like about doing it publicly at the church is that we call the entire body to help the family raise the child - it becomes a larger family responsibility.
inWorship (how come I don't remember your real name?) - We do communion once a month on the first week of the month. Creatures of habit. And we usually run our worship experience like this: - Song 1 - Song 2 - A Pastor introduces communion. We have bread and juice on tables in the back, people are free to come up anytime after it is presented. - Song 3 (for communion) and then the rest of the service...
James McLean
· 1 year ago
my weekend was crummy because i've been sick, i lead worship sick and somehow God made it come together. one of the things that we do a little different at conVerge is that we do the worship/music after the message, we see it as a way to let the people respond to the truth that they have just heard. also, this coming Easter we will be doing a Tenebrae service which is basically a reflection on the death of Jesus three days before Easter. The lighting is candles only and as people share scripture or song or prayer they blow out a candle and then at the end of the night the last candle is blown out and it is dark signifying the death of Jesus. The people are left that way and then you kind of reflect on it for the next few days and then Easter comes and we celebrate the resurrection!
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inWorship (how come I don't remember your real name?) - We do communion once a month on the first week of the month. Creatures of habit. And we usually run our worship experience like this:
- Song 1
- Song 2
- A Pastor introduces communion. We have bread and juice on tables in the back, people are free to come up anytime after it is presented.
- Song 3 (for communion)
and then the rest of the service...
one of the things that we do a little different at conVerge is that we do the worship/music after the message, we see it as a way to let the people respond to the truth that they have just heard.
also, this coming Easter we will be doing a Tenebrae service which is basically a reflection on the death of Jesus three days before Easter. The lighting is candles only and as people share scripture or song or prayer they blow out a candle and then at the end of the night the last candle is blown out and it is dark signifying the death of Jesus. The people are left that way and then you kind of reflect on it for the next few days and then Easter comes and we celebrate the resurrection!