Up With Worship Bag Of Marbles Grapes

Instead as anne ortlund suggests in her book up with worship we need to be more like grapes.

Up with worship bag of marbles grapes.

Each one is a part of the fragrance of the church body. Anne ortlund in her book up with worship groups christians into two categories marbles and grapes. Marbles are single units that don t affect each other except in collision. The other bag changed quietly and the contents will never be the same.

Grapes on the other hand mingle juices. Marble churches rattle with activities. In the sense that it was reformed in its focus on the grace of god in. The difference is authentic community.

Churches are either bags of marbles or grapes. Tensions arise in jesus church when members act like marbles. Instead as anne ortlund suggests in her book up with worship we need to be more like grapes. Then kevin walks over and asks for the two bags.

But each grape has been changed by the grapes clustered around it. The early christians didn t bounce around like loose marbles ricocheting in all directions. Each one is a part of fragrance of the church body. Bunch of grapes or bag of marbles.

One bag made noise but remains unchanged. Marbles are single units that don t affect each other except in collision grapes on the other hand mingle juices. Grapes cluster together for a long time and then they work together to form into one great unit sometimes juice sometimes jelly sometimes jam and sometimes just a snack. Its liturgical worship and in its continuity with the past it was very catholic.

Marbles hold their space in the bag while rubbing with great pressure against its neighboring marble. He gets back one bag of marbles and one bag of mush. But each grape has been changed by the grapes clustered around it. Grapes on the otherhand mingle juices.

Address at salisbury diocesan synod 18 february 2012. A bag of marbles or a cluster of grapes.