A Sunday Celebration

Today I visited a church that was very different and yet very comfortable. My spirit connected with the Spirit of God and sang a new song! The worship style was familiar yet at the same time totally different, deeper and more reverent, words I recognized, yet a new song I had yet to sing. I left knowing that I had been among a group of people who were truly worshiping God. Who had come expecting to be in His presence and in the presence of other believers who were earnestly seeking His face. I do not know if I have ever been in a place where so many were overwhelmed with their desire to worship God, and to soak in His word, to find answers on how to live this life in the light of His glory and grace.

The message was bathed in the blood of Christ. It gave a clear gospel presentation yet at the same time was not a seekers service it was not a new believers service, it was a hearty meal of meat and potatoes. it was one that challenged the mature believer to go deeper, and at the same time it called to those who are thirsty to come and drink deeply of His refreshing, thirst quenching, living water. They used a centuries old message and made it relevant to today without watering it down to make it palatable for this generation, while at the same not time taking away the relevance to the early church. There was a passion in the preaching that you could tell was real and being lived out in the every day of the one who spoke. There was sense of overwhelming desire on his part to impart his awe and wonder at the words of his Lord and Savior. To make us understand the depth of his understanding of what the Word meant to him and to us. How it could and would change our lives by understanding and apply it to our daily living.

I cannot begin to tell you how thrilled I was to come home and find messages online going back years from this group of pastors. I will have the opportunity to discover if what I heard today was consistent with their message. the information they provided me gives me much to take in and pray about.



Blessings my friends,