First Century Service at Church

We had a "First Century Service" at Church tonight. It was really cool. We didn't really plan on doing that, but the Spirit led and we followed. Our typical Wednesday night service is:

• Catered Dinner begins serving at 5:45 PM and is cleaned up at 6:30 promptly


• Meet at 6:45 for a 15 minute time of praise and prayer


• Bible Classes 7:00 to 7:50/8:00ish

Due to the holiday season, though, Bible classes have been put on hold until January. So we ate and then met for praise and worship. Our worship and praise team led us in worship. We sang, prayed, and recited scripture together. At 7:20 the worship leader then invited anyone who had a song that they wanted to sing to come lead it or to suggest it for him to lead. Completely unplanned, one of the guys said he didn't have a song...but wanted to share a thought and pray over our worship leader. When he finished, the worship leader tried to return to his original plan, but another member requested the microphone and shared a Spirit-inspired thought. Finally, a third guy also felt a leading and he took the microphone and spoke for a few minutes.

As all this was going on, I was reminded of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians where he gave them instructions for how to come together and eat (as we had done). I was also reminded of his teaching in chapter 14 about how several people will be inspired to share a revelation or be given an interpretation, about how two or three prophets should speak while the others weigh it carefully. I thought to myself...that this is what worship is about.

Hopefully we will do the same thing next week because I am "eager to prophesy...in a fitting and orderly way."