At our service
this morning continued the theme of “discipleship,” and today the theme was “corporate
prayer.” In the Young People’s slot, early in the service, our lay minister (Reader)
Colin Chettle, who was leading the service used a Jenga tower to demonstrate
how the absence of individuals (and their prayers) can weaken the whole
structure. Younger people, and their prayers, were vital to the life of the
church. The game was started by the children, although adults helped,
especially when the tower got so high that the children could not reach. But
the higher the tower, the greater the crash!
Another of our
lay ministers, Karen, showed how important corporate worship was in the life of
the early church and invited us to discuss why we found it difficult to pray
corporately. Finally she invited us to discuss ways that we could find to
overcome the problems that we had identified.
With a “Prayer
Hour” in church this evening, we wait to see the effect Karen’s sermon has had.
