following a few days talking about worship it was great to be back in my home community grace to kick off a new year. wounded in all the right places was the theme inspired by a track of that title by 1giantleap. the order of service and various bits of liturgy have been or will be added to the grace web site.
there were a couple of ideas that worked wonderfully. one was that people were invited to take a piece of broken tile and then bring that to place on a table. this table of broken pieces then became the table on which the bread and wine were placed, christ's body broken for our broken community. we'll use this table through the year.
i wrote, together with a friend dean, a eucharistic prayer on the theme of wounded which has been added to the grace web site.
for the prayers we had written out our ethos words in night lights and invited people to light a candle either reflecting on some way their life had been shaped by it or for a hope for the coming year. it was simple but looked stunning. the prayers concluded with this beautiful prayer of commitment from wild goose - i'll try and find out the source exactly...
inspired by juli allen, the service ended with an improvised blessing. harry said he wanted to try it, taking notes all the way through and delivered a broken blessing
steve has a set of photos and there will be more in the gracelondon pool no doubt
i am so glad i am part of the broken community that is grace...
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