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Christ Church Padgate Rectory A Message from our Rector Dear Friends On Sunday 28 September at 10.30 am we will be holding a special service. It is our Dedication festival, but also this year it coincides with “Back to Church Sunday”. The purpose of “Back to Church Sunday” is to invite and welcome people who have not been to Church for some time to come a join with us on this special Sunday.
Sometimes we just get out of the need to attend Church and worship God. We take for things for granted, our lives become busy in different ways and going to Church no longer becomes a priority.
We hope that this special Sunday may provide an opportunity for those who would like to worship to come and be welcomed into the worshipping community again.
The worship of God is an important part of living the Christian life. The word “worship” comes from the old expression “worth –ship”, in other words “giving God worth”. We “worship” to give God His worth as our creator and sustainer.
Sometimes our worship can be criticised for being irrelevant and old fashioned. Traditional Anglican worship can seem be rather stilted and inflexible. But whatever its faults traditional Anglican worship does give us the opportunity to worship God in a manner that gives Him ‘worth’.
We are given the opportunity to say we are sorry, to pray for others and offer our concerns to our Creator and to hear His Word in the scriptures and exposition.
We are also given the opportunity to praise God in music and verse and to thank Him for his goodness to us and to get very close to God at the sacrament of the Eucharist.
These are all opportunities to offer God His “worth”
Maybe, sometimes our worship may seem stilted and inflexible because we are ourselves. We have our own set ways of doing things and may not wish to move away from them. We then have to break away from the mould and be challenged.
I believe it is right for us to remain “Traditional Anglicans” and to be proud of it. Yet I believe we are faced with the challenge to make worship as good and best as possible and relevant, as we offer God His “worth” in all that we offer and do.
With my best wishes and prayers
Stephen Attwater
Page updated 26/08/2008 |