Day: May 14, 2004

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worship ideas

i thought i would post two worship ideas we used at “the view” in the past two months. here they are:

1. kierkegaard style worship – the danish philosopher/theologian made a wonderful description of worship as being for GOD’s pleasure. we did a worship service focused on a chair as the reminder of GOD’s presence. we started with silence and a powerpoint show explanation of the evening (click here to view it), sang a good bit, and then ended with another powerpoint show summarizing the night (click here to view it). all together a cool night.

2. augustine hospital worship – augustine described the church as a hospital for sinners. we spent the night being a hospital. we started off with a flash presentation describing the night (click here to view it or if you have swish click here to modify the file for your needs). we then had students lead the evening with through a period of offering our wounds to GOD (writing how we’ve been wounded on bandages and then placing them in an offering plate), read some of the bandages out loud and asking all those who have the same wound to stand (showing each of us that we are not alone), and finally, after some singing, having students come up and take somebody else’s wound to pray over for the next week, believing that what GOD said HE will prove (james 5:16). an extremely moving night and students and adults being apart of GOD’s plan to heal each of us.

if either of these work for you please use them and change them however you need to. i would love to hear what you do with it.

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RELEVANT magazine

RELEVANT magazine: “we view ourselves much higher than we should. we so often judge GOD’s action against what we want, and if the two wills do not line up together, our respect and concept of holiness is tainted. ”

daniel parkins made the above statement in an e-article for relevant magazine – a great magazine. he compared how we treat the elderly – viewing them as hindrances and having to earn our respect – with the manner in which we treat GOD. we do church expecting GOD to do what we want and we teach our students to do the same thing. we have to present a holy GOD to our kids. it has to be all about HIS glory. we can’t play church – our kids deserve better.

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my little buttercup

My little buttercup has the sweetest smile
Dear little buttercup won�t you stay a while
Come with me where moon beams paint the sky
And you and I might linger in the sweet by and by

Oh dear little buttercup with your eyes so blue
Oh little buttercup you�re a dream come true
You and I will settle down in a cottage built for two
Oh dear little buttercup I Love you

(Everybody)
My little buttercup has the sweetest � SMILE!
Dear little buttercup won�t you stay a � while, WHILE!
You and I will settle down in a cottage built for two
Dear � little buttercup, Sweet � little buttercup
My little buttercup � I Love you

sorry, but i’m watching the “the three amigos” and i couldn’t resist quoting from their great dance scene. there’s nothing quite like a group of pansy actors dancing in front of a group of scared stiff pistolerios.

you don’t have a problem with that do you, “you son of a motherless goat”.

it would have to be a blast to do something completely insane and random like their dance with a group of people who have no idea what is going on. i personally have never danced in front of a bunch of south of the border criminals. the closest i have ever come to anything like this would be the time that i convinced a group of people in one of the elevators in the state capital to join me in singing “you are my sunshine”. i entered the elevator and saw the group of people in there. on a whim i asked if anyone would like to sing with me. one nice older lady said “we won’t all know the same song”. where upon i said “how, about ‘you are my sunshine’, we all know that don’t we”. she said yes, and we started to sing. it was a cool but odd moment. for one song we were a community of people. then the elevator stopped and it was over.

i, of course, stole this idea from tony campolo – who did it first – but it was still fun.