Off to church...

Well in about one hour i'm leading at preaching at my local church. A task which i always find tricky because there is the continual struggle of knowing how far to push them. it's a middle-class church, with middle-class values and an incredibly middle-class way of doing worship (organ/piano, led prayers, teaching normally care of the white man at the front) and too often i think i play the conservative card and obey the set formula... not once have i been criticised for doing something too whacky, or hippee-ish and that's side because i think it's ignoring who i am to please the masses when as a methodist local preacher i should really be expressing who i am as much as acknowledging who they are, but when you have 150 people who resist things that are new and different, doing any worship tricks seems quite daunting... maybe next week!

Comments

[lou]

Hope your preaching went well.

I've found that often, churches aren't as conservative as I'd imagined them to be. I've never had any complaints for being too weird either when I've been preaching but I've tried out some fairly unusual things on middle-class, mainly elderly congregations. The things I'd been worried about often turn out to be the things that people remember fondly the next time I go to visit.