11-Worship through Service

I haven't had the chance to post much in the last week because I have been on Middle School Work Camp with the youth of St John United Methodist Church in Prospect, KY and will be attending High School Work Camp next week in Brighton, Tennessee.

Interestingly, I have read that in the Greek the word for Worship is the same word as for service and this is what I experienced last week working alongside the middle schoolers. What if we approached each and every task as an act of worship? How different would we perform, how different might the outcome be?

While pulling out a bed of dead ivy in front of our youth room we noticed how intertwined the root system was. Years of growth made it nearly impossible to pull out the brush. The Christian life should be like the ivy...Growing among other believers, we should bind ourselves together in the study of the word, in acts of worship, service and fellowship. Over the years we grow strong and our faith cannot be easily shaken and we cannot be ripped apart by temptation, the stress of daily living, by illness, loss or anything the evil one throws at us. The middle school campers learned that last week... am we as smart as a middle school work camper? I pray that it is so...