It was great to welcome Simon and DoraMaria back in the evening for
wonderful worship and inspiriing consideration of the way Jesus deals
with the mute spirit in Luke 11.
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Thanks Simon & DoraMaria..... It was so good to have you back, even for such a little while!!
Our loss, Yorks gain..... Praise God!
On reflection, we all have a tendency (or maybe it is just me) to keep shut about the things we believe in. How can this be??
We dress it up as fear of man and possible embarassment and indeed ridicule but the times that I do open my mouth it is normally well received!!
I am amazed how silent I can be. When prompted by the spirit to say something we should do it.... but we can miss it so easily.
This is also another excuse I hide behind.... Was I prompted by the Spirit or was it just me. Does it really matter in the long run.... only good can come out if we say words of love and encouragement.
Another excuse can be that we never hear from God so I don't have to speak!!
The other one is what if I say something and its complete rubbish - we all have a testimony, we all have life giving words in our mouth, we all have the Holy Sprirt within us..... what more do I (we) need.
Thanks for this Simon,
Posted by: keith | 29 June 2009 at 10:33 AM
Simon said something on the lines of 'Rather than being liturgical, i.e. singing hymns other persons have written, etc, I am....' - I want to know the expression or word he used? Something like 'emanental'? Maybe he made it up?
Posted by: Guy | 01 July 2009 at 04:26 PM
I think the word you're referring to is 'extempore' which means unplanned, unprepared, spontaneous.
Posted by: lou | 01 July 2009 at 05:38 PM
Hi Guy,
As Lou has said, I used the word 'extempore'. According to John Wesley's Journal, he was introduced to extempore prayer for the first time on a Trans-Atlantic ship in the company of Moravian missionaries. Just as most of us today accept extempore prayer as the 'norm', for the past 20 years I've sort personally to explore the possibilities of extempore worship (or extempore song - probably the third category in Paul's list in Ephesians 5:19)... a style used and encouraged regularly by the worship leaders at Kingsland.
Posted by: SimonR | 01 July 2009 at 07:41 PM
Ah! I greatly appreciate it as well...we were having a discussion at work as to what it might have been! Thanks!
Posted by: GN | 02 July 2009 at 04:48 PM