Last night in prayer meeting, we shared in a family-friendly service. After singing a couple of gospel songs, one by request, we had the kids up front leading the singing of some good, old children’s songs, two of which had motions. It was fun to look back at the adults who were doing the motions as well, especially on singing “Only a Boy Named David.”
After singing “Boys and Girls for Jesus” we took prayer requests for the unsaved. How precious to hear these children and adults mention their loved ones, friends, and neighbors’ names. We then broke up into small groups with adults and children praying out loud for the lost. How sweet to hold a 4 year old boy in my lap as he prayed in his own precious way, and it was not a short prayer either.
When we gathered back together, we sang the old gospel song, “I Love to Tell the Story.”
I’ve challenged our congregation to memorize Ephesians 4:1-16 over the next two months. Hence, we then worked on 4:1-3 as a family or in small groups. The drill was to say 4:1-3 five times aloud in unison as a group. Then, one person in each group would take the lead in saying the passage leaving out words for the rest of the group to fill in. This was a blast! The laughter and joy of memorizing Scripture was so cool! Then some of folks stood and recited 4:1-3 which was followed by encouraging applause.
We then took Ephesians 4:1 and broke it down word-for-word learning the meaning and the application. How cool to watch everyone search through Ephesians 1-3 to find what Paul meant when he said in 4:1 to walk worthy of the vocation to which you are called. The kids did a great job with their answers straight from Scripture.
What a precious time we had as a church family in community last night.
The ice cream treat with my wife and the sunset afterwards was an added blessing, too!
From a pastor’s heart,
Dale
From A Pastor's Heart 