today--another day of me dreaming....

Today was good. Well, it was good for most of the day. This morning I went to church at the 411. We had what they call an experiential service. During the service we had different "stations." The theme was thanksgiving, so at every station we had a different way of giving thanks. At one station we "reflected." At one, we wrote thank you notes on peoples pictures. At one we wrote thank you notes to God. At one we took communion. At one we could do something artistic to represent our thankfulness. After we did this for about 45 minutes we sat in silence for a few minutes then worshipped in song for a while.

I find this very interesting. For some reason I spend most of my commute back to the Village thinking about how to implement this in a larger setting like at Emmanuel. I thought about doing it for Christmas morning. You could take out two sections of chairs. The theme could be "God with us" at one station you could have someone quietly playing hymns (and I mean old school hymns). At this station people could gather around and worship in song. At another station you could have a place for people to take communion. At another you could do the artistic representation. You could lay out several large pieces of Butcher paper and have people respond to a verse chosen for the station. At another station you could have some one simply reading over and over the Christmas story (they could even do this in a dramatic way). At another station you could have people respond to the question, "where would you be if God was not with you?" They would do so on a piece of large butcher paper. There are several other things you could do. The room would be lit in a very low light, with candles everywhere.

But that is just me dreaming--