Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone.

Just a quick message to wish you all a good Christmas break. I hope you have had great terms, especially those of you who have come to Norwich for the first time.

The past few months have been both inspiring and challenging for me; I very much feel ready for lots of sleep, mince pies and sherry…!

I would encourage you to take time amidst the festivities to look back over the term and think about what God has been teaching you and leading into. It can be really hard in the manic world of university to hear from God… if we can’t hear from him at Christmas then when can we!

It has been a real pleasure for me to get to know some of you better. I’m really looking forward to continuing that next term. Safe journeys home…

Dan

What is that about?! Worship

Why do we spend so much time in worship on a Sunday morning? Where’s the organ, the hymns and the song books?

Kings strives to be a church where people are eager and excited to gather together. Paul describes in Romans (8:15) how we are God’s children and as such how we have a natural desire to find and experience God’s love; this is a desire share with everyone at church.

Worship begins to arise when we hear the Word and respond to it. It is a response from the heart.

Worship is literally an act of love; it is our natural, knee-jerk response to the words we hear and the feelings of our heart. Therefore, as a response to our love for God and his undying love for us, I reckon worship should be a pretty exciting thing. It should be full of passion and joy, a celebration and a way of speaking to God.

Often people dance, sing, jump or laugh when they’re happy, get exciting news or are generally having fun! When we worship God it should be an awesome experience- He is our creator, our Father and He loves us.

At King’s we worship God freely, with songs, prayers and spiritual gifts. We enthusiastically worship God with a genuine freedom, gained through Christ (Gal 5:1).

Again, this may have thrown up more questions, but hopefully it will have also provided some answers!! I get so excited about worshiping God on a Sunday morning… I hope you share in this love and can experience the same excitement too!

Jenny