Ok, blogworld, I'm preaching a sermon this Sunday from Psalm 13, the well-known Lament-Psalm.
I need your help, what voice does "lament" have in your corporate worship services?
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I think in the worship services I've been a part of that have included any "lamenting", it has been in a voice of silence.
ReplyDeleteIn one of my first years of ministry, our church lost a member very suddenly one Saturday night, and most of our members heard about it at worship on Sunday morning. Our preacher did about a 5 minute sermon, and then dismissed the worship service so that our church family could just be with each other, hug each other, and cry together. I know that's more "grief" than it is "lament", but I think its the closest we know to lamenting. Or at least the closest we are comfortable having in a worship service.
I'm not sure what has been done in the past at OC (Otter Creek) though I know Randy Gil, BST, et al and ZOE have helped Churches of Christ in this area.
ReplyDeleteI think lament comes best, not from the preacher, but from the congregation (witness . . . testimony as preaching).