This Sunday at 4 p.m. Stone Soup will continue the worship laboratory. Our focus scripture will be John 4:1-42. This is Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well where he talks about the living water and worshiping in spirit and in truth. So bring your ideas or experiences about worship settings, structures or components that have been most helpful to you. Design a worship service or experience that you would like to try. Or bring in an ancient worship practice that we all could try. Remember, as a worship laboratory we do real worship but we are open to the possibility of trying new things and old things, making mistakes, and all the while experiencing hints of the Divine Presence of God. We're to be challenged, finding ourselves in strange settings or encounters, so that the mysterious, the unspeakable can break through our lives of sameness. Hopefully the Sacred will ooze forth from the mundane and shatter the profane shell covering so much of our lives revealing the Divine Presence everywhere. In John, ...The woman said to him, ‘Sir, I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.’ ²¹Jesus said to her, ...‘Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. Then Jesus goes on to say ²³But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.
That is what we seek. Come on out and join us. We need to hear what you have to say.
Bring a friend and/or a stranger.
Dinner will be Breakfast casseroles (that we froze from Easter morning) and salad. It is all taken care of so just come!
Peace,
Rob
Here's a pic from our sunrise service last week.