This past Sunday, October 19, 2008 was Laity Sunday at Arlington (AUMC). The service was entirely designed and led by the laity of the church and two laypersons gave witness of their relationship with the Lord Jesus. One of them shared of how the Lord has worked through her giftedness for the building of God's kingdom and the other spoke of our United Methodist history and called for our current applications of our history. Admittedly, they did not want to call their talks 'sermons' but I would call them very-well prepared and delivered sermons.
On the personal side, for the first time, my wife and I sat in the AUMC balcony and just listened, observed and participated in centering upon our worship of God. It was such a holy experience for me.
My prayer is this will be part of AUMC discovering that
- by the power of the Holy Spirit God delights in using all God's people to bear witness by word and deed of God's boundary-crossing love;
- and that the worshipers will sense the words they are to speak and the deeds they are to do to express the love of God on a daily basis;
- and more than just sensing what is right in the eyes of God that they will do.
"And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit"
(Acts 13:52)
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