This Sunday, in addition to the "accepted acts of worship", I’ve planned for us to experience a time of reflection and a time of silence. I make the distinctions in the following manner.
The time of reflection will be to consider a portion of text from Christian literature followed by our weekly selection from the Psalms.
The time of silence will be a portion of time of waiting silently before the Lord.
We’ll read the classic passage from Habakkuk 2:20 joined with Zechariah 2:13 (though we won’t sing the corresponding song) I’ll show a video snippet about silence and then we allow for a time of silence.
I’ve posted the entire assembly structure on our website if you care to perouse.
Any similar experiences?
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August 29th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I’ve done that once, years ago. For the most part, one might conclude we would prefer pain over silence!
August 29th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
“Silence.” Now that is something my teacher’s heart can appreciate.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Haven’t scheduled it into our family time. Sometimes during “open” prayer there is silence, but it’s not quite the same thing, is it?