What do you do when you come together for worship? Do you join together to engage in deliberate intentional practices that honor me? Do you come to meet with me? Do you desire my presence? Yet there is nothing you can do to make this happen. The wind blows where it will and you cannot control it. I come and go as I please as you do. Yet I am drawn to you as you are drawn to me. If you seek me I will find you. Seek me with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and I will come to your meeting and inhabit your intentional practices with transcendent presence and divine glory.

Do you go to a church with a printed order of worship? Some churches use these, and others do not, but in nearly every case there is an agenda planned in advance by someone whether it is printed or not. Have you ever seen a printed service bulletin with an entry that says, at this point in the service the Holy Spirit takes over and we don’t know what will happen after that. Have you ever been in a service where this happened? Even if you can’t arrange this in advance you should consider it to be desirable and be prepared to abandon your planned sequence order when it occurs.

When you have a dispute with your brother, or with anyone for that matter, how do you address it with him? My word tells you to go to your brother directly (rather than to everyone else). This is a good start. What then? Do you lead with your strong points and point out the errors in his ways? You would do better to acknowledge your opponents strong points and the weaknesses in your own positions. Why is this? Your opponent already knows these things, and this is his position.

Do you see people who are recognized as spiritual leaders for whom you have no admiration, and others that you do admire? Do you have a spiritual leader of your own? As a citizen of a country you are under whatever system of government is in place. You may have had the chance to vote for your leaders, or not, and your candidate may have lost the election, but you live with the outcome whatever it is. There are leaders in my Kingdom as well, but the selection process is different. You are free to affiliate with the church of your choice, so in that sense you get to select your leader.