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PASTORS MESSAGE
2010 Worship Service
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Sing Your Song So That We Can Sing Our Song
“The Church in Jeans” has been a conversation a bunch of us (20 to 40 people) have had each Sunday morning this summer at 9:30, lifting up numerous ways that God’s people respond to God’s calling. We talk about how we put on our working attire (the appropriate attitude and commitment) and try to let God’s heart flow out through our hands. I have been moved by the variety of gifts you each bring to the church and to the world. For some it seems so natural to write a card of encouragement. For others of you, prayer brings life and hope to another person or a situation. Some are so adept at getting workers for worship, some at teaching, and some at organizing a program and guiding children, like at VBS. Some of you are always available when an appliance needs repair, grass needs mowing, a wall needs paint. Some of you are especially good at inviting a neighbor, making worship inspiring for others around you, or helping one in need. You bring gifts for a variety of concerns, and want to know the story of others so that you know best how to be a good neighbor. You bring music, you bring offerings, you bring your heart.
It’s like each of you has a special song to sing, one that belongs especially to you, and you blush and rejoice every time you have a chance to sing it. In the video many of you have watched at one of our visioning gatherings this summer, Leonard Sweet challenges us to “Discover the song God has given you to sing, and sing it!” And you do indeed have a song. You may be uncertain what it is, how important it might be, or if you have one at all, but you do.
Our songs are not only of incredible value as individual songs. They also are parts of a bigger song, the song God has given to Prince of Peace. That is the song we are working at discovering. What are the verses, the gifts, the inspiring pieces, that make up the melody that is uniquely ours? Our congregation can never copy another congregation. No other church is in the same situation as we are. No other church brings the same cast of talented, forgiven sinners ready to share their songs as we do.
Please don’t minimize the importance of the song God gave you. Please respect and value the God-given song of every other person as well. And together we will discover what lies before us – our ministry at Prince of Peace.
Pastor Tollefson
