How do we do it?
For our weekly worship time, we dress in worship clothes. This means respectful and tidy. It doesn’t mean any kind of uniform, but the point is, we wouldn’t go to meet anyone official like the queen or the prime minister wearing beach clothes. What about God? God is greater than all human dignitaries.
We gather at a set time because even though our worship takes place in our home, we take it seriously. Otherwise it will degenerate to a non-happening. We aren’t rigid about exact time or how long but we do have structured worship time.
We sing hymns or Scripture songs. When the children were younger, these also included special child favourites. We sing to live piano music because we have one and we can play it! There is no set number we sing.
We kneel down to pray. Sometimes one person prays. Sometimes it is more. We don’t read prayers. The prayers are expressions from the heart to God. They are not sermonettes for the listeners!
Then we will read together, study the Bible together or occasionally listen to an audio study. There is freedom to comment, to question or seek clarification from God or each other.
We pray when we are done. Frequently there are a number of voluntary prayers. Sometimes we choose to sing again.
Lina writes from QLD, Australia