Silence – Tuality Community of Christ

WHY CHURCH?

Anonymous Responses from March 16, 2014 Worship Service

Reorient personal perspectives
Closer relationships with other members
Gain scriptural knowledge in context of “community”
Experience God’s presence

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To keep one focused on God & blessings
To give one hope
To relate with people there
To feel wanted and loved (acceptance)
To broaden outlook on the world
To bring our cares and needs and share them
To help where we can at church and in our communities
To enjoy being with others
To remember what I think is my purpose for being here

Helps me get through the week
Look forward to see everyone and connect and share with them

Emotional and physical support for life’s issues

To be involved with people and learn about God and Jesus’ teachings.
We need to belong with people who believe like we do
I believe in what our community of Christ is teaching.

To learn of Christ and his teachings
To fellowship with other members
To serve in ways to help others
For my own spirit and happiness

It’s what I know
If I didn’t come to church, then I would not communicate with adults outside of work. This is my family.

Because I believe in Jesus Christ and the mission of the church and want to support it.
Connecting with others in worship allows a sharing of ideas and a support network of love.
Hearing the morning message, singing hymns, attending Sunday school class, etc. provides spiritual inspiration and insight.
Attending church provides a corporate connection and avenues to provide service to the community.
Church lifts me up with a positive and happy message that carries me through the week.

I believe in the savior Jesus Christ. I trust that his message and mission are the truth. I want to develop my spiritual understanding of His love. I come to be uplifted by His message through His influence in the lives of others as expressed when we worship together.

Jesus came for sinners, to save them. I come to be saved.

I must believe in Jesus and the things that he did because I want to have my second life, in heaven. I must believe that the Father raised Jesus from the dead as well.

Hmmm….Church or Shamrock Run in downtown Portland? No question – church! It’s a chance to be with my spiritual family, my tribe, my community, to recharge the spiritual battery that gets drained by dealing with issues in the real world and having to endure the insignificant stresses of those who lack awareness of a sense of beyond (where life is about more than what they think is important about work).

– Why Church? by Various participants during the March 16 worship

Psalm 122: 1 says in part, I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!” The first Sunday in Lent at TCC was just that kind of a glad time for me.

I walked many miles on The Path which formed our worship experience. The Path is a direct set of meditations to help worshippers meet and experience the Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. The six stations on the Path include The Grove which used imagery of a doorway for reflection on where God is leading; The Return of the Prodigal offered personal space to recall times of being lost and found; The Cup of Life invited us to gather around a table set with different cups which suggested various states of fullness and emptiness; Ikebana illustrated an example of balance and gave invitation to find the same; The Pool splashed with refreshment and observations about Jesus’ living waters; and The Sanctuary which invited us to enter and share about the places(s) where we have felt God’s presence.

Highlights of traveling The Path included for me:

As in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, being filled with wonder at the courage, joy, and faith expressed in the stories told in the circle of travelers;

Saying nothing and being, at times, alone with my thoughts;

Singing new and cool songs of along the Path;
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Being trusted to share another’s grief and hearing also that one renew their hope in the face of a small death;

Feeling the splash of refreshing water and being uplifted by the connections other’s made with the fountain;

Loving the lone daffodil in the Ikebana display and receiving an invitation from that yellow flower balance in life the small field offered.

The breadth of Lenten discipline and renewal is encompassed in Frost’s quiet but arduous couplet, “And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.” Walking the Path reminded me of the HOly Spirit’s accompaniment of our difficult and happy journey. I was so glad to take The Path today.

March 9, 2014 Weekly Theme Reflection by Rob Garwig

Tag: Silence

Why Church? – Anonymous Responses

“The Path Reflections” – by Rob Garwig