Blog 2 of 2 - a rant
ok, so normally I think of something that ‘Grinds my gears’ and go on a ramble about it and this evening is no different, here bloggers is my blog on the joys of ‘Echoed/Chanted Prayer’.
I grew up going to a C of E church, everyweek we’d be given these tatty green cards which contained the whole service order, prayer of confession, and other chanty boring kinda stuff. Yes, I know that this is how some churches are but it doesn’t work for me, for me a relationship with God is something awesome, something powerful and most importantly something personal, when I pray to God I want what I say to be from my heart, I want to tell God exactly how I feel whether it’s apologising for me being a muppet, praising him or just having a ramble to God from my heart, God created the entire world, and loves everyone but still finds the time to speak personally to little old me here in Peterborough doing youth work and I want to make my relationship with him equally as personal, sitting in church saying ”Heavenly father I confess that I have sinned against you and against my fellow man in thought and word and deed, through neglegance, through weakness, through my own deliberate thought and I am truly sorry for my sin’ etc etc, and so on and so forth (I can remember that yet haven’t said it for about 7 years!) means nothing to me, I say it merely because it’s in front of me not because I mean it, when I screw up I want to say something personal to God because it’s my relationship with him and it’s not the same for everyone.
So what about the Lords prayer I hear you (and myself) cry! Well, Jesus said ‘This is how you should pray’ and yes I think if you mean the prayer when you say it it’s good to use however I’d take it as more of a demonstration on what we should include in our prayers so we should say sorry and thank you and it would be nice to have etc etc.
Anyway ramble over!
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I don’t have too much or a problem with those sorts of things. Only when they come to displace the Ruche of God (that’s a fad that hasn’t come about in a while).
having words printed doens’t make them less real and itr’s Godly praying people who’ve written them.
But as much as that quote actually does send one of those `yer, that’s so right on, Lord` shovvers down my spine (that I rarely get outside of Five Iron Frenzy lyrics) I know I get bored when chruch is scripted
in summary: Farm
I think anything that helps people try to get closer to God is a good thing, if you can do it without aids fine, some people benefit from it and find it a truely personaly way of worship.
If thats the case, sung worship has no place because 90% is scripted words on a screen.
In the end its not about “FARM” its about heart. If you read the words and say them and mean them - then this is no less valid than you making up your own words. God looks on the inside and not how well you can craft a prayer.
but in essence it’s swings and roundabouts.
some people (like you said) like scripts, some people don’t. Somepeople (like me) don’t give a porcupine’s hiccup.
I’m not sure God’s bothered either way, so as much as it is indeed about heart, you must admit, there’s a substantial element of farm and/or agriculture in there
Ben
By your language you seem to be insinuating that farm / agriculture in worship is bad.
From a personaly perspective I ere on the side of not liking that either.
However If people like litergy / scripts / aids / pictures / images / smells / music whatever - its a personal choice that to be plain has nowt to do with us. Its about heart. Its about using something to help them surely?
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