an eventful weekend:
Beth has her arm in plaster
Gills won the football
joined Sheena in the club for drinks before the game
I sorted new tyres on the ‘new’ caravan
We ate kebabs and hid behind the sofa during Dr Who
Tom did church parade with scouts
kicked a ball in the back garden with Joe
Sarah made 24 hours stretch to 30 in a day
church was quite good – (although I am currently struggling with songs written by young men whose lyrics make me think they have written them to their girlfriend rather than God!)

The highlight of the weekend was catching up, even if too briefly, with people I have not seen for a while. Most of these people were in church on Sunday morning. Seems to me that there is a good case on Sunday for our worship to also consist of catching up and laughing and maybe praying with each other rather than exclusively the standard worship of sing songs, pray and listen to sermon.

I left church this morning, unusually one of the last, but still finding myself wishing I had caught up more with more friends. I’m starting to feel strongly about this. If we say church should be about quality of relationship with God and each other then surely part of our worship needs to allow personal relationships with each other to develop. If we agree that people join ‘church’ due to the quality of authentic faith and genuine relationship that they see lived out, then we need to give space for this authentic, person to person, relationship to develop alongside our relationship with God.

I wonder if we have started to concentrate too much on God on a Sunday, and neglected each other?