worship service

If you have been 'reared' in a church-going family, there are a lot of terms you have probably incorporated into your language along the way.... (or at least heard a lot)

'til the next appointed time'
'guide, guard and direct us'
'separate and apart....' (that one may be indigenous to the church of Christ)

and, my all-time favorite:

'worship service'

I recently heard about a group which may have, for the first time in modern churchianity, actually met the meaning of that ill-conceived and misapplied phrase...

I noted with great interest a story in the local paper about a church youth group who worshipped together on Sunday morning... but it was quite different than what you are probably thinking about; and, frankly, quite different from what they were used to... Instead of the attending the conventional worship assembly last Sunday, they went out and committed random acts of kindness.

They found people who needed help (lawn raking, gutter cleaning, painting, etc) and helped them! I wanted to find fault with them... but when I looked to scripture to define what 'worship' is, I came to the conclusion that there was no higher form of it than helping others!

As my friend Jimmy Blagg likes to say, “I can’t say enough about that”

God Bless!