Before attending the conference in Sheffield which began on Monday morning, I had intended to go along to St Thomas' morning service to get a flavour of their congregational life. When I checked their website, I immediately encountered a problem - there was no morning service that Sunday! It was Cluster Sunday, a day when the small groups cluster together to engage in a variety of forms of outreach. Instead, I went along to their evening gathering when all the clusters gave testimony to what they had been doing together and what they had seen God doing through them and with them that day. It was such an uplifting service and you can get a flavour of it by listening to the sermon here. I found the experience of that day challenging and deeply searching. To what extent do our services make the connection with our every day lives?Does our tradition over emphasise the significance of Sunday worship at the expense of Monday to Saturday worship? I like what Michael Frost has to say on the matter:
"....worship services ought to be corporate expressions of the overflow of the regular life of a community that churches together at some level every day."
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