Creative Worship

Categories: spiritual-journey

Date: 31 October 2012 12:59:19

In this last reflective post I want to share a five posts which I think/ hope have been useful to people, all of which are linked to creative worship.

The first of these is a post I did when I was attempting to do a creative Lent. It is the one which I believe may be my most looked at post over time, partly because it tends to have an annual outing as something which is found via Google. Whilst I am not completely sure that the theology behind the idea was 100% right I think it was something useful. The post gave 40 ideas on things you could do which might help you better connect with God and recentre yourself. They were activities which could also involve spiritual reflection.

The second of these outlined some of the ways we had done family worship with Third Party and some of the ways I had approached being a Christian parent discussing God and sex with her.

The third post is an A-Z of prayer.

The forth thing I want to share is a post which shared a prayer workshop which I've done a couple of times.

The final one is a poem called the Means of Grace which was part of a creative presentation I had to do for the district candidates committee. Again it has some creative ideas for personal spiritual chill out/ worship.

You'll see from the way they come up prayer walls and play-lists are important features of my personal worship. I haven't negotiated a space with Karl yet for a prayer wall here yet. I think realistically it may take the form of a notice board rather than an actual wall here.

I have ensured our joint computer has one of my worship play lists on though. As ever the first song on that playlist is Nirvana's Come As You Are. I find it welcomes me into my times of spiritual chill out. The opening lyrics are:

"Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be. As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy." It then continues "Take your time, hurry up, choice is yours". Then it says "And I swear that I don't have a gun. No I don't have a gun. No I don't have a gun."


Whilst I know that Nirvana had a totally different meaning for these lyrics as I listen to them they speak to me really deeply about a God who invites us to worship him as we are, as we were and as he wants us to be. It also tells me that he welcomes me to come to him whatever mindset I'm in and that it's safe to come into his presence - he will never force us to do anything, rather he always gives us a choice.