October 11 service

This comment I am copying for Laura.  It got posted under a different date, but applies to 10/11/09:

Ok, so I have missed the last three Sundays, but was there yesterday and am struggling with what to say. First, I need to ask, why is no one useing and/or commenting on this Blog? There have been no postings since Sept. 13TH. What's up with that? I thought those involved agreed to be part of trying to decipher what the Spirit of God would like to see us change to draw people closer to Him and into a deeper worship of Him. The verse in Revelation from Sunday, "WORSHIP GOD", just keeps resounding in my heart. Also, when Bruce referred to MAKING your grandkids hug you as oppossed to them running into your embrase, really, to me embodies what our own personal worship needs to be. We cannot just rotely sing praise songs and or hymns and expect to give God the glory He deserves or expect to be filled up with the joy of His Holy Spirit. Hence, my thoughts: The worship team needs to select songs that are made to be sung by a body to the Lord as opposed to songs meant to be an offering by a few that the congregation can listen to and be ministered by. The first song Sunday was awesome and I really felt the Spirit trying to do a work in the body, then, not so much! Songs that are complicated to sing along with, or AGAIN, TOO HIGH, lose the congregation fast and the moving of the Spirit is dropped like a hot potatoe! You can just sense the loss! Then, when Jeff got up, BOOM, the Spirit was back, had the body's attention, and WAS POWERFUL! The same with Bruce's sermon, POWERFUL! PRAYER TIME, POWERFUL, COMMUNIION POWERFUL, in spite of the song choices...much love, but we need to confront this as worship teams and be willing to make it about lifting up our Great God and leading the people in need to His strong arms for direction and comfort....It is so not about performance! If we as worship team members will practice before, and then just WORSHIP GOD on Sundays and not be in performance mode, I truly believe we will see His Spirit blanket our worship service and anoint it as He already is anointing Pastor Bruce, readers, and prayers at LOG. Thoughts?


Laura