It has been months that we've been working toward yesterday's Life in the Spirit Seminar, with the last month a more intense time of preparation, especially with regard to music ministry, with four 3-hour rehearsals.
It was well worth all the effort. Aside from needing a bass player to fill out the bottom, we apparently sounded pretty good, and it was wonderful to see people advancing throughout the day in their openness to praising God. Our pastor did a fabulous job with his talk on Encountering God's Love, but each of the speakers did a nice job. Of course, the lay speakers who did talk number 5 were the only ones without the self-discipline to stick to their time. Oh, and let me never forget that 15 minutes of repeat-after-me prayer is at least 10 minutes too long. I really think that some of us may have gotten in the Spirit's way a little bit there, which is a shame after all the great stuff before it.
Yet I also know that the Spirit did move powerfully, and that people encountered the presence of God in new ways.
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