Unrehearsed

I'm a big fan of cooking, an even bigger fan of experimenting with recipes. There have been moments when I've had the inspiration to try something new that I did not have a recipe at all for, all I had was an idea. As the ingredients are put together and past experience meets uncharted territory something inside me tells me this is where you want to go, but then again I have really no clue, all I know is I want what I have never had before, a unique taste to something similar and familiar but definitely not the same.

Something took place in our service last week that was exactly like above. Week in and week out we can come in with a recipe of what we would like to see God do in Church. We've tried to get ministry and methods down to a science, operating with time slots, and formats but all of that was thrown out of the window last week and we entered into the arena of the unrehearsed. Unrehearsed is uncharted territory, it's a familiar place with a different hunger. Unrehearsed is not duplicated, it's new every single time. Unrehearsed say's I don't know where we are going, but I definitely don't want where I've been. Unrehearsed worship is always better then something that was planned and practiced because the heart is exactly where God wants it and it happens instantly. We saw God and experienced God different because our hunger was different, it was a hunger for something new. I love what Tommy Tenney say's in the book The God Chasers, "God's idea of church and our idea is totally different. " When you and I have entered into the unrehearsed thats when our idea of church has met God's idea of church.

I'm challenged this week to live unrehearsed. I don't want the same recipe in my prayer time, my journaling or in worship. I have plenty of expectation but don't know what to expect, what I do know is don't want where I've been.