Lavish Worship
This is a repost of a blog entry that first appeared on Spreading Goodness , and then again on the Beaverton Foursquare Worship blog . I'd highly recommend both. My wife and I were recently privileged to spend several hours in unstructured worship along with 30 or 40 Stanford students. Our eldest daughter is a junior at the university and, along with a few dozen others, spends Saturday nights in worship modeled after the International House of Prayer . The group began as a small gathering in a dorm room. They simple preferred to spend time together in God’s presence to a standard college Saturday evening. These few found more joy spending time with Christ than they ever did spending time taxing a tap at the local fraternity. Before long they had attracted others and outgrew the dorm room, arranging for space in the student union. That doesn’t surprise me. The time we shared with them was tender, refreshing, and encouraging. It was also remarkable to see students who bear such i...