When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Four came tonight,
Added to the three in our house who engage.
One brought a prayer of St. Francis.
Most High, glorious God,
Enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me
True faith, certain hope, and perfect charity, sense and knowledge,
Lord, that I may carry out Your holy and true command.
One saw a vision,
Of our friend, in the sea, hit again and again by the waves,
But in the end, rest.
One had spent hours,
Looking at the words used in the Bible.
The most common word is
Unto.
A word of movement.
A word of change.
(The second most common:
Lord.)
One had a lesson on
Discipleship.
We want people to follow Jesus, yes.
But we want them to be
World changers, too.
All adults prayed.
All laughed.
One had a new tattoo:
And yet.
One had just obeyed a difficult instruction.
And it hadn’t turned out perfectly.
We talked it through, wanting to build up.
We shared a meal, and
The Lord’s supper, and
A bottle of white wine, and
Talked about whether white counted
For communion. Does the color matter?
The two hours, four hours, six hours
That friends stayed
Passed in fellowship and
Joy.
No comments:
Post a Comment