In the mingling before the service, send someone out to greet as many people as possible. Let this person put on some – expensive is best! – perfume on their hands. Later on in the service, ask people to smell their hands – they might be surprised to find them smelling...
This was written for the final morning of Spring Harvest '09, but could be used in any context where you want people to corporately commit to living out Jesus' Great Commission. Commissioning prayer based on Matt 28:17-20 and 10:7-8. (said by all together) Jesus we worship you, And sometimes we doubt. Yet we know all authority...
Download the script for this original sketch, written to be part of the Carol Service at St Stephen's Church, East Twickenham. The sketch is set in a dark cave where one character, representing self-satisfied materialism, discusses with another character, who represents idealistic humanism, how best to - if at all -...
This worship idea uses a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, The Church at Auvers, to reflect on what image our churches project to those outside their walls. It is suitable for use in a service or small group/youth group. It involves the entire congregation/group going outside at the end! You could...
