f2:19 aftermath
And so, yes, it has been a couple of weeks since the last blog entry but everyone person will be delighted to know that I was pacing myself. Didn't want to burn out too quickly.
Seriously, though...the last worship service we had was what we call a child friendly worship service. That is a service that is easily understand by children and includes familiar music and concrete illustrations that illuminate the good news of the gospel. The music was phenomenal and our worship leader, interactive and vibrant as always, engaged the children in a way that helped them to encounter the living Christ in the worship space. Here's the story behind the actual worship:
A pumpkin named Pumpty Lumpkin, cousin of Humpty Dumpty- the famous egg, had a wind push him off of his perch and onto the ground. His contact with the ground, like most things, causes this poor pumpkin to explode after getting a new lease on life. He felt good about himself and wham! something happened. Distressed, Pumpty laments aloud "If all the king's horses and all the king's men could not put Pumpty back together again, then I am doomed!"
The point is that too many times we put our faith in the world and things that we believe will fix, liberate, or save us or make us whole again. At the point that we explode and realize that we are broken, maybe that's the time when we should relinquish our reliance on what the world has to offer and instead wait for the arrival of Jesus.
Pumpty waits in his sadness. He is picked up by the hands of a stranger and is eventually returned to his perch whole and unblemished with a candle shining within- the light of Christ.
The children that night got it: that presence of Jesus Christ may come right when you so desperately need to be made whole. To have faith that Jesus will come is to put our hope in the living Christ, the hope that transcends the circumstances of our lives.
Seriously, though...the last worship service we had was what we call a child friendly worship service. That is a service that is easily understand by children and includes familiar music and concrete illustrations that illuminate the good news of the gospel. The music was phenomenal and our worship leader, interactive and vibrant as always, engaged the children in a way that helped them to encounter the living Christ in the worship space. Here's the story behind the actual worship:
A pumpkin named Pumpty Lumpkin, cousin of Humpty Dumpty- the famous egg, had a wind push him off of his perch and onto the ground. His contact with the ground, like most things, causes this poor pumpkin to explode after getting a new lease on life. He felt good about himself and wham! something happened. Distressed, Pumpty laments aloud "If all the king's horses and all the king's men could not put Pumpty back together again, then I am doomed!"
The point is that too many times we put our faith in the world and things that we believe will fix, liberate, or save us or make us whole again. At the point that we explode and realize that we are broken, maybe that's the time when we should relinquish our reliance on what the world has to offer and instead wait for the arrival of Jesus.
Pumpty waits in his sadness. He is picked up by the hands of a stranger and is eventually returned to his perch whole and unblemished with a candle shining within- the light of Christ.
The children that night got it: that presence of Jesus Christ may come right when you so desperately need to be made whole. To have faith that Jesus will come is to put our hope in the living Christ, the hope that transcends the circumstances of our lives.
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