With Heart and Mind

Doctrine moves from head to heart

When praise of God becomes more important in worship than “what we get out of it.”

When we say the creeds with conviction because we are confessing the faith fo the church – though our own faith may yet have to grow into it.

When we pause when starting to discount another person because we remember each human being carries the image and likeness of God.

When we look around us and declare that everything in God’s creation – rocks and stars, birds and trees, humans and dandelions, waterfalls and whales – is praising God.

When we watch a baptism and see a new creation.

When the hymns we sing become confession instead of words and notes.

When the words we say on Sunday shape the things we do on Monday.

When a way opens for us where we thought there was no way, and we breathe a prayer of thanks to God the Holy Spirit.

When we eat the bread and drink the cup and feel forgiven.

When at the center of our sorrow in facing death we experience peace and assurance in God’s promise that we will be raised to new life.

When our world falls apart and we sense God’s presence with us in the rubble.

When we open the Bible alone or with others and expect to meet the God who is revealed there.