One of the things we need to ask about church events as well as the elements of worship can be summed up in a single word:

Why?

Everything we do needs to be put to the test of this question – “why do we do the things we do?”   Does this particular event or element of church further the purpose of our ministry? I think for a lot of us in ministry, this isn’t a question we really need to spend too much time on.  We already have a ministry philosophy and a strategy to implement it.

But there is another question I have been asking myself lately.  Am I communicating the intentionality of our programs and strategy?  Does everyone know the “why” behind the “what”?

NLCYG:

For this reason, this Sunday we will be starting a short sermon series titled, “Intentional Liturgy”.  We will be going over the different elements of our corporate worship, and examining the reason(s) for those elements.  One of the things that I hope for us (myself included) would be a deeper understanding of our worship services.  I think it’ll be a good series, and hopefully a blessing one as well!