We have discovered over the years how important play is. I am talking about things like going bowling together, going to the movies together, taking fun little trips together, catching a play together and things like that.
We have had a few people really struggle with that because it feels like we are taking a day "off" when we do something like this and I think that comes from people still thinking that the only "spiritual things" we can do as a church are, in no specific order, worship through singing, having one person teach a sermon style teaching, praying in the very common way of folded hands and closed eyes, to name a few. Even taking time to do announcements seem to have stuck in peoples "habit-bank" as something of great value that could only be done right after worship through song.
So, we have done quite a bit of deconstruction on these things, and I would say, some construction as well. We are in a period of renewal I would say when it comes to our gatherings. We are constantly letting our imagination flow as what we could do together when we gather together.
"Play" is one of those things. Tomorrow I will writer more about that.
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