Blogging Towards 2008
(worship from sunday, december 30, 2007
at fruitvale presbyterian church)

In our last worship celebration together we asked the question, "Why do you go to church?"

Our scriptures were:
Psalm 33
(God alone is worthy of praise and service as God has created all, saved all, redeemed all and loves all).

Luke 2:21-40
(Simeon and Ann, who both basically lived in the Temple awaiting the arrival of the Messiah meet the infant Jesus on his 8th day of life and presentation according to the law. What does it mean to live life as worship of God? It's what they did, but what is it for us?)

Romans 12:1-2
(Paul encourages the faith community in the church of Rome to continue meeting together, worshipping as a community and reading the scriptures as a gathered group - for these experiences are the ways in which God's voice is heard, God's word is received, and we are transformed by God's presence in and throughout the world).

So then we talked - basically an open-mike sharing about why we come to church. What fun it was to hear the different and diverse remarks. During the celebration we showed a photo montage of events and activities of our church community throughout 2007. Here's a shorter version.

So why do you go to church?
If you don't go why don't you?