Continuing to analyze the morning’s service during your first Sunday attending Circle Church, you would have noticed the attempt at honesty which was displayed in various interactions. It might have been the staff members in a programmed time for spontaneous dialogue regarding the content of the sermon, or the candor of a pastor in fielding questions from the congregation, or the members in reaction to one another during a discussion group in the hour following the service. In whatever form, its presence could have not been denied.
As you attended more often, you would have discovered that each Sunday was a weekly implementation of the philosophy of Circle Church which has been discussed in the preceding blog posts.
Planning The Service
The purpose behind the services, down to each individual part, is not left to chance. Exactly the opposite is true.
At the conclusion of the service one morning, a woman visiting from another congregation said to me, “My dear David, how God Himself must have been here today! The way the Holy Spirit in His own manner put all the ingredients together was just phenomenal!” I appreciated her comment, because the Holy Spirit had put the services together, but not quite in the way she intimated—that of a great gluing force acting mystically and existentially.
The Holy Spirit had motivated our thoughts as we agonized the week, and sometimes weeks, before to form our purpose sentence. He had wooed and we had yielded to His prodding at the personal needs in our lives during sermon preparation. He had creatively inspired as we thumbed through hymnals for appropriate music. He had been in the service. But no, He was not haphazard.
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