Write About Now

I like these creative worship ideas from http://www.wibsite.com/faith/interesting.htm. There are more on the site—I just copied my favorites here. And I believe the author’s British, so read it all in a Knightsbridge accent.

Decide that worship doesn’t have to be based around singing.

Invite people to wander round ’stations’ situated around the building rather than just sitting in the pews.

Stick a huge sheet of blank newsprint (usually available free from your local newspaper printers) on the wall and get people to scribble prayers or anything else on it.

Share a meal together.

An idea for a ritual: Hang a large sheet from the ceiling. Encourage people to make a tear in it to symbolise the barrier between God and people being broken down (fits well with Luke 23:45).

Take a look at the Visions website. In particular look at their images section, plenty of inspiring stuff.

Try one of the experiential prayer exercises on the embody site.

As a confession give people large dissolving tablets and invite people to write on them then dissolve them.

Have a variety of resources for prayer (maps, news reports, etc.) in different corners of the room for people to wander between and pray for different topics.

Get people to write down prayers on small pieces of paper. Photocopy these onto acetate, probably reducing them as well. Cut these into slide-sized pieces and put them into slide frames (available from a photographic shop). Then at the next meeting project the written prayers with backing music.

Make a photostory of a Bible account using your friends as willing participants.

Have coffee available during the service.

Conduct a snap vote of participants on an issue. Get instant results or read them out at a later point in the proceedings.

Make a cross out of an old Christmas tree.

Have your service at a different time.

Bring together the items involved in a biblical story in order to help people focus. For example for the ‘I am the Vine’ passage find some shears, grapes and a cut off branch.

Use a number of rooms and have different music playing in each.

Split talks into several 5 minute sections rather than one long spiel. (You knew I’d include this one.)