tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520413.post2533816475680566507..comments2023-10-11T03:54:58.698-06:00Comments on Randall Friesen: Worship is...Randall Friesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04112919973262687369noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520413.post-70823888478207391042003-10-13T02:04:26.000-06:002003-10-13T02:04:26.000-06:00I liked this part of the quote:"Prayer, the m...I liked this part of the quote:<br><br>"Prayer, the meeting between God and God's people, creates the atmosphere of worship. Prayer cannot be explained. It lies in the realm of mystery and bears the quality of transcendence, only intelligible as mystery."<br><br>I am beginning to appreciate the fact that I am comfortable with mystery and even more that I can enter into the mystery of communicating with God. I also know the struggles an intellectualizing person has with prayer, letting go, moving into the realm of mystery. I wonder if their worship and prayers take a different shape, or need to, or if God just meant for them to struggle with things mysterious. Because surely God created and understands our different personalities.Lineahttp://linealanoie.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520413.post-21680793825480014102003-10-14T12:57:25.000-06:002003-10-14T12:57:25.000-06:00Hmmm.Not quite sure I agree, or maybe it's sem...Hmmm.<br><br><br><br>Not quite sure I agree, or maybe it's semantics. I'm not sure understanding or explantion actually makes any difference to our experience of God's presence. Otherwise how could a worship leader actually worship themselves, for example? However, following the context, I quite agree that continual interuption certainly does interfere. <br><br><br><br>And prayer is one of the forms of meeting between God's people and God. Worship is another, but not the same. And both can flow into each other, but neither automatically lead to each other.<br><br><br><br>I've just been in contact with one of the local worship leaders from a church plant out from St Aldates (Oxford - major Anglican church). She was telling me how they are experiencing God moving in their worship, with words, prophesy and people responding spontaneously. Brilliant.Toninoreply@blogger.com