Random Acts of Worship
Wayne, since this has become our personal way of communication…here are more of my random thoughts…
Have people bring something from their house that reminds them of a God story in their life.
Set up posters through out your house and have your life group members write out prayers to God on the top half, answers in the bottom. Then walk around the house to see all of the posters.
Set your house up as a prayer labrynth. Every room or closet has a candle and an index card as to what to pray for.
Instead of ‘group prayer’ during LIFE Group, pick one couple each week and ask them how to pray for them.
Renew your marriage vows at LIFE Group.
Dedicate a child…preferrably your own.
Propose. (Check out what Jason Lofton did here!)
Do a potluck but every dish has a God story behind it.
Take communion as a LIFE Group.
Fast then break the fast together.
Break out the guitar!!!
Write poetry.
5 Responses to “Random Acts of Worship”
Thanks for the ideas Grant
Okay, I just found this site. I guess I am out of the loop. Maybe on purpose!
Can I throw water on this post? I do not like most of the suggestions. If I was in a group that did some of these, I would think it was too forced or trying to be purposely different.
I will save you a response, Grant, by asking myself, well then, what would you suggest be done?
I will have to think about it some. My initial thoughts are that you will not experience God “on-the-spot” much differently that you experience him in everyday life. If you are not having meaningful worship times during the week, then the group times will be just another event that will have little impact in our life.
I think worship has to come out of a personal relationship, emphasis on personal. Most meaningful workship will occur in private situations as we experience or recognize God, rather than group situations, unless you happen to be in those rare situations where you are with some like-minded people. Is Sunday morning or life group meetings one of those? Maybe.
(This is getting too long)
Few people come to group settings ready to worship and it may be too much to expect that they do. So maybe we have it backwards. Maybe the worship time should be on the back end. The front end could be used to help us get to the point where we see or experience God in a way that we will worship him. Worshiping first just creates a situation where we have to fake it or conjur it up. Not good.
The other thought is to not push the worship in group settings. Do other things in the group and encourage worship in personal situations.
I will stop now (no clapping), but I have more (no crying).
Interesting thoughs M20 — lots to chew on. What if your premise that “few people come to group settings ready to worship” was wrong? What if people came expecting to worship together via one of the earlier mentioned ideas, or even in some other way? What if in our daily walk and everyday life, we expected every meeting with a brother or sister or group of brethern and sisteren
to be a worshipful experience? Ahh, but first, what are YOU defining as worship?
Me??? At a high level, I still tend to define it as our response to God’s love. Doing the double click on that is a bit difficult — I think that response takes on various forms both in private and in community. That response also deepens and grows/changes/transforms as our relationship grows and deepens.
Hmm, an interesting thought just hit me…must go do a little digging.
P.S. M20, Welcome to the Lifewalking blog.
Tonight will be lab night for our group. We’ll let you know.