Up With Worship Bag Of Marbles Grapes

Address at salisbury diocesan synod 18 february 2012.

Up with worship bag of marbles grapes.

A bag of marbles or a cluster of grapes. But each grape has been changed by the grapes clustered around it. Its liturgical worship and in its continuity with the past it was very catholic. He gets back one bag of marbles and one bag of mush.

Grapes on the otherhand mingle juices. Marbles hold their space in the bag while rubbing with great pressure against its neighboring marble. Marbles are single units that don t affect each other except in collision grapes on the other hand mingle juices. Grapes cluster together for a long time and then they work together to form into one great unit sometimes juice sometimes jelly sometimes jam and sometimes just a snack.

Each one is a part of the fragrance of the church body. One bag made noise but remains unchanged. The early christians didn t bounce around like loose marbles ricocheting in all directions. The other bag changed quietly and the contents will never be the same.

But each grape has been changed by the grapes clustered around it. Instead as anne ortlund suggests in her book up with worship we need to be more like grapes. In the sense that it was reformed in its focus on the grace of god in. Bunch of grapes or bag of marbles.

Who knows the anglican communion best and has the most up to. Marbles are single units that don t affect each other except in collision. Each one is a part of the fragrance of the church body this analogy paints a fairly accurate picture of church life. Tensions arise in jesus church when members act like marbles.

Then kevin walks over and asks for the two bags. Instead as anne ortlund suggests in her book up with worship we need to be more like grapes. Churches are either bags of marbles or grapes. Each one is a part of fragrance of the church body.

Anne ortlund in her book up with worship groups christians into two categories marbles and grapes. Grapes cluster together for a long time and then they work together to form into one great unit sometimes juice sometimes jelly sometimes jam and sometimes just a snack.