Sunday, February 28, 2010

What don't we sit together?

I feel a passion and a calling to unite God's people. Through worship, through ANYTHING. It is heart wrenching to come to corporate worship and see people sitting as far from the others as possible. Whether this is considered a courtesy, or a comfort, I do not know. Maybe both- but when we will be so in love with each other, the God in each of us that we sit together? That we learn to share in each others' joy, pain, suffering, elation, worship? How are we to know who is on the fringes, on the outside, when we are all sitting on the outside waiting for someone to bring us in? What is "in"? When do we, with open arms, embrace each other as the glory of God? I really feel like we need an encounter with the holy. If we have encountered such, we need to join together and share in the glory of God. That is what sparks a passion, a movement, a revolution in the heart, in the church... How are people on the outside supposed to know what being apart of something means when they don't see anything to be apart of? When all they see are empty seats and a community that just doesn't seem to like each other very much. I noticed it the most today in worship, while the back was packed because it was the back, the front was so sparse, I could name you everyone on each row... there were only a few. I could tell you who was sitting alone. Who was afraid their child was moving too much... who was insecure, because the people around them were sitting so far from them... It's heartbreaking to have to 'lead worship' in such a separated place. What would happen if I mentioned this appearance to them? Would they agree? Would something change? Would it be something they resent? Maybe something they never noticed. Maybe that's all we need... someone to say something. Teach something, speak... sing... something. We can experience God individually all week-- maybe God has something to say to you in particular on Sunday morning, but this is when we come to share it together. Agree or disagree?

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