We looked at our Sunday worship, and saw how it should be Christ centred, Spirit led, and a response to the love of the Father. Our worship then, is fundamentally trinitarian.
The musicians are looking further at these principles, and seeing how they are worked out in the way that they play their instruments as they help us in our Sunday services.
Christmas has reminded us of why it is that we respond to God as father. He sent his son into the world, to be the means by which we can know forgiveness and have a fresh relationship with God, one to one. By his grace we become, as Paul puts it in Galatians, a New Creation.
This is what we are in Christ, and so we should express this in our worship together by being open to one another and to what God wants to do in us and through us. One of the great principles in our baptist heritage is that we believe that we can all minister to one another as we are empowered by the Holy Spirit. Therefore in public worship we must remember to listening to what God is doing, and be ready to share that with others. This might be a word of encouragement for an individual, and we know who it is for, so we can share it directly. Or it might be an encouragement and we don't know who it is for. In this case, please either attract my attention during the service or immediately afterwards, and then we can share that encouragement publicly.
Every blessing in Christ for 2014,
Nik
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