For The Audience of One- Chapter 7

In this blog I'm going to try and be more of a push and pull technological expression. This will be an attempt to provide some questions for reflection on Mike Pilvachi's book For the Audience of One.

Read Chapter 7 Worship and Spiritual Warfare

Sometimes fear is a darkness that overwhelms and in fact distracts us from anything of light. We feel we have to conquer the darkness rather than look to faith, look with thanksgiving on our journeys of faith.

1. What surprised you reading these few pages? Was this chapter something expected?
2. What are your experience of this in worship?
3. How important is preparation for spiritual warfare in worship?
4. How are you distracted or what do you do distracts others from God?
5. Read 2 Chronicles 20: 20-21 and spend time in prayer before worship.

Our Unique Call

So many terrible things happen every day that we start wondering whether the few things we do ourselves make any sense. When people are starving only a few thousand miles away, when wars are raging close to our borders, when countless people in our own cities have no homes to live in, our own activities look futile. Such considerations, however, can paralyse us and depress us.

Here the word call becomes important. We are not called to save the world, solve all problems, and help all people. But we each have our own unique call, in our families, in our work, in our world. We have to keep asking God to help us see clearly what our call is and to give us the strength to live out that call with trust. Then we will discover that our faithfulness to a small task is the most healing response to the illnesses of our time. Henri Nouwen Bread for the Journey

This is our purpose or meaning in life only discovered in the context of a continuing relationship, an attentive relationship, lived out in small minute ways. Often the big vision is not supported by small actions and we become guilty of hypocrisy. Let's live according to the moment in the light of eternity rather than try and capture eternity.