Our wee monthly emailing of various liturgies and contemporary moments from our services over September has just been sent out. It's a collection of stuff emailed out at the end of each month that collates some of the things that have been written for our worship here in Abbotsford. It comes out every month and there is a long story why this emailing is put together but my thought every month is that it suggests that people are always on the lookout for creativity yet I've found that creative services tend to be a minority sport. We like talking about being creative in the church and imagine that more is better (personally that is true for me) but it is not the style of worship that appeals to the majority of God's church going folk in my experience. Has anyone found different?
We always have a creative piece and for some it is the highlight of the service (I know because they have told me) but I imagine that if it wasn't there most wouldn't notice. How can we let creativity speak into our faith again. Especially when as Presbyterians we base our whole faith on just three symbols: water, bread and wine. As soon as you have a symbol, you've got creativity. Perhaps the more we engage creatively the more we think round about it and reinterpret it rather than take the official line. Is that dangerous. Is creativity dangerous for the church at the same time as life-giving..?
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