May 2, 2013
Reflecting on Your Worship of God In This Place
Please feel free to print these questions for use in your own congregation, discussion group, bible study, etc.
- How might we understand our “place”—an actual location, such as a neighborhood, a city, an ecological niche—as deeply important to how we worship God and serve our neighbors? How does this place shape our worship, music, and the arts? And how might our worship, music, and the arts enable us more fully to seek the welfare of this place?
- How might the worship in our church spill out into the streets?
- Where does the water in our baptismal font originate? Why should we care?
- What nearby sites hold dangerous memories, and how might these sites become settings for intercession or healing?
- What stories and songs are buried in the soil on which our cities’ churches sit?
- What churches are visible in our city or town’s skyline, streetscape, or landscape? What messages do they convey?
- What does the outside of your church say to those who might enter?
- How might the distinctive ecological features of our region become visible or audible in our worship?
- How do the sounds of our worship resonate with the other sounds of our city or town? Are they respite, challenge, echo, or something else?