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Come bring your burden to me
The ‘saving Word’ brings support and healing in troubled times. This hymn can be sung to the tune ‘Aurelia’.
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Mike Bossingham offers some ideas for a new approach to worship
There have been a number of changes in our culture over the last few decades. Our failure to respond to these changes has largely brought about the decline we have seen in our churches.
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by Liz Smith
These are just a few of the comments following a recent Time to Talk service on a Sunday evening in our circuit. Once a month the evening service at one of our churches has become ‘Time to Talk', when a congregation drawn from across the circuit now comes knowing that there will be an opportunity for them to speak as well as to listen to others. Initially, the invitation to leave the security of the pews and gather around tables for activities and discussion was met with an anxious silence and some reluctance, not to mention a spasm of fear in the hearts of those leading - what if they refuse?
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I was accredited as a Methodist Local Preacher in 1953 and have been preaching for nearly sixty years. Over that time both my sermons and my conduct of worship have changed considerably as I have tried to ensure that congregations have been given the opportunity to worship in an environment which is helpful, culturally aware and, above all, a worthy expression of our relationship with God.
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– a personal view by Peter Johnson
Only a few years ago, restless spirits in the Methodist Church were complaining about our ‘hymn sandwich' service: the rigidity of it all, the formality and predictability. Bring in, they said, the religious songs, the music groups! We brought in those songs, that music.
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