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The Church is Boring - Worship is Irrelevant.

 

People sometimes claim that Church is boring and irrelevant and therefore as a consequence they do not go.  It is true that anything done repetitively runs the risk of appearing boring, but boredom is really only a problem if we expect to go to church and be entertained in some way.  God commands that we should get together as a community in worship and we obey.  We should not be going to church to be entertained but to work.  Of course this does not mean that church should set out to be deliberately difficult or miserable, or unappealing, far from it.  The more we put into our worship the better we will find it whilst to the contrary the more we set out to get something out of it the less sustaining it will become and the more irrelevant it seems to be.  I also suggest that a church that deliberately seeks to have entertainment as part of its purpose in worship is deeply suspect.  Whilst it is good to enjoy what we do it is so much more important that what do is right and acceptable in God's eyes.  If we only did the things we enjoyed the world would be in a sorry state indeed.

I wonder if it really is true that worship is irrelevant. Perhaps it is because of our misconceptions about the importance of worship, or a half hearted approach to it, or the fact that we tend only to do what we think we will enjoy that society is in such a sorry state! I am convinced that a greater observance, by all of us, of our religious duties would stop and even reverse the movement this country seems to be experiencing into the problems of drug addiction, violence, crime, dishonesty, corruption, sexual exploitation, family break up, etc.

The ancients believed that if all worship was stopped or performed incorrectly then the world would end. When I look at the increasing problems in the world and the disregard of traditional values I sometimes wonder if they knew something more about reality than we do today, despite all our knowledge. Even one person's extra prayers on a Sunday morning can make all the difference! Why not let that person be you?

 

 

 

Tony Gilbert

 

Team Rector

 

 

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The Reverend Tony Gilbert

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Tony with his wife Nicola