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Angela Shier-Jones's blog

Good morning God,

There's no doubt about it - having to prepare worship for a Church does steal some of the spontaneity of worship. I mean - here I am worrying about Pentecost and the coming of your Spirit and trying to figure out how to pin you down to an order of service...

What an odd expression that is - 'Order of Service.'

It reads like an honour of some sort about to be bestowed - like the Order of the Garter.
Yes... it is an honour to serve you by participating in worship...but I'm not sure that is what most of the congregation think they are doing.

'Nice service', 'good service this morning', or my personal favourite 'I really enjoyed the service'...all wonderful compliments which suggest that the 'service' is something that the congregation thinks it has just received rather what it has just given to you!

But that's an issue for another blog - back to my main concern...scripting your holy Spirit...

You do know don't you God, that according to my current order of service you are due to make a personal appearance at 28 minutes to 11? ... READ MORE.