Up With Worship Bag Of Marbles Grapes

Address at salisbury diocesan synod 18 february 2012.

Up with worship bag of marbles grapes.

Marbles are single units that don t affect each other except in collision grapes on the other hand mingle juices. The other bag changed quietly and the contents will never be the same. One bag made noise but remains unchanged. Instead as anne ortlund suggests in her book up with worship we need to be more like grapes.

Its liturgical worship and in its continuity with the past it was very catholic. In the sense that it was reformed in its focus on the grace of god in. Who knows the anglican communion best and has the most up to. Then kevin walks over and asks for the two bags.

Marble churches rattle with activities. Marbles hold their space in the bag while rubbing with great pressure against its neighboring marble. 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. The difference is authentic community.

A bag of marbles or a cluster of grapes. Each one is a part of fragrance of the church body. Grapes on the other hand mingle juices. Bunch of grapes or bag of marbles.

Each one is a part of the fragrance of the church body this analogy paints a fairly accurate picture of church life. He gets back one bag of marbles and one bag of mush. The early christians didn t bounce around like loose marbles ricocheting in all directions. Tensions arise in jesus church when members act like marbles.

Grapes on the otherhand mingle juices. Marbles are single units that don t affect each other except in collision. 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. Each one is a part of the fragrance of the church body.

Churches are either bags of marbles or grapes. But each grape has been changed by the grapes clustered around it.