http://bikemovement.org/blog/2007/06/15/what-if-we-poured-concrete-together-on-a-saturday cultivating a relevant community through conversation Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:08:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://bikemovement.org/blog/2007/06/15/what-if-we-poured-concrete-together-on-a-saturday#comment-4366 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:10:37 +0000 http://bikemovement.org/blog/2007/06/15/what-if-we-poured-concrete-together-on-a-saturday#comment-4366 Yesterday I led worship, and I can't say that I enjoyed all the planning or nervousness that went into that, nor can I say the service alone was "church," but something beautiful happened in that space. We showed that we cared, listening to one another as prayer requests were heard. We exchanged smiles, hugs, and love while taking communion. And we worshiped, offering words to our belief, humbling ourselves as we fumbled through motions to new songs because we knew that how we looked was not the important thing. Okay, so maybe we could do all that while pouring concrete . . . but I think there's something about creating a space in our lives to be intentional about our focus, to say, this hour is about meeting God and nothing else. (Somedays that's harder to achieve than others.) So maybe church is pouring concrete with our neighbors on a Saturday morning, and maybe it's meeting for a Sunday service, but most likely it's both. Sometimes it's meeting God intentionally, and other times its being reminded of God and the kingdom in the middle of an "everyday" task. Each offers something unique and important, something that isn't quite "the church" but is definitely part of the church. Yesterday I led worship, and I can’t say that I enjoyed all the planning or nervousness that went into that, nor can I say the service alone was “church,” but something beautiful happened in that space. We showed that we cared, listening to one another as prayer requests were heard. We exchanged smiles, hugs, and love while taking communion. And we worshiped, offering words to our belief, humbling ourselves as we fumbled through motions to new songs because we knew that how we looked was not the important thing. Okay, so maybe we could do all that while pouring concrete . . . but I think there’s something about creating a space in our lives to be intentional about our focus, to say, this hour is about meeting God and nothing else. (Somedays that’s harder to achieve than others.) So maybe church is pouring concrete with our neighbors on a Saturday morning, and maybe it’s meeting for a Sunday service, but most likely it’s both. Sometimes it’s meeting God intentionally, and other times its being reminded of God and the kingdom in the middle of an “everyday” task. Each offers something unique and important, something that isn’t quite “the church” but is definitely part of the church.

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