DCF Worship Team: Worship Set for 3/27/11

1. Our God Saves
2. Christ Is Risen
3. Revelation Song
4. You Are My King (Amazing Love)
5. Above All

Here's the songs we're doing this week. If you don't know them, listen below. There are other songs too for your listening enjoyment. Rejoice!

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Have you ever noticed there are 31 Proverbs? That's a Proverbs for each day of the month. What a great place to start if you're looking for a daily devotion to add to your reading! And so this is where this idea comes from for "a way to worship" for today:

WAIT: Isaiah 40:31 MSG

"But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, they run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind."

*the following devotion is provided by ResourcesForYourMinistry.org :

The Right Place and The Right Time

Posted by Dennis Moles in Blog on March 23rd, 2011 | one response



The reality of my upbringing can be summarized this way: if life is a five-step race, by virtue of my parents, I had a four step head-start. Mom and Dad (Linda and Delmas to their friends) loved the Lord authentically, they loved each other passionately, and they loved Chris – my younger brother – and me unconditionally. Mom and Dad worked hard to model good morals and ethical behavior for us and they, as much as any two people I have ever known, really desired to live lives which conformed to the image of Christ and the standards of the Scriptures.

One of the ways Mom and Dad attempted to model the Christ-life for Chris and me was to diligently be in the “right” place, at the “right” time, with the “right” people, for the “right” purpose. What I caught from my parents and other important people God has subsequently brought into my life is that the “right” place isn’t just church and the “right” time isn’t always convenient and the “right” person isn’t always clean or sober or morally principled.

It’s hard to explain but Mom and Dad – Mom especially – had a capacity for turning the wrong place into the right place and the wrong time into the right time. They had a knack for living out the principles which Jesus models via His Samaritan missional adventure in John 4 and in so doing taught Chris and me something about God’s perspective on right and wrong.

Over the next few days let’s see what we can learn from Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan Woman. Let’s observe how Jesus

1. Turned the wrong place into the right place
2. Was right on time by arriving at the wrong time
3. Exuded the love of God by being willing to compromise His ability to participate in religious rituals for the sake of a less-than-desirable person
4. Kept His mission the main thing in the midst of temptation and misunderstanding
5. Saw the harvest in spite of religious and racial prejudices

Ready or not, here we go down the irreligious rabbit whole.

How does this idea that Jesus’ message was irreligious make you feel? Are you uncomfortable with it? Are you challenged by it? Does it make you afraid or do you get a strange sense of freedom from it?