The early christians didn t bounce around like loose marbles ricocheting in all directions.
Up with worship bag of marbles grapes.
Then kevin walks over and asks for the two bags.
A bag of marbles or a cluster of grapes.
Tensions arise in jesus church when members act like marbles.
He gets back one bag of marbles and one bag of mush.
Anne ortlund in her book up with worship groups christians into two categories marbles and grapes.
Who knows the anglican communion best and has the most up to.
The difference is authentic community.
Address at salisbury diocesan synod 18 february 2012.
Grapes cluster together for a long time and then they work together to form into one great unit sometimes juice sometimes jelly sometimes jam and sometimes just a snack.
Marbles are single units that don t affect each other except in collision grapes on the other hand mingle juices.
Grapes cluster together for a long time and then they work together to form into one great unit sometimes juice sometimes jelly sometimes jam and sometimes just a snack.
But each grape has been changed by the grapes clustered around it.
Bunch of grapes or bag of marbles.
Each one is a part of fragrance of the church body.
Marble churches rattle with activities.
Its liturgical worship and in its continuity with the past it was very catholic.
Marbles are single units that don t affect each other except in collision.
Instead as anne ortlund suggests in her book up with worship we need to be more like grapes.
But each grape has been changed by the grapes clustered around it.
Churches are either bags of marbles or grapes.
Each one is a part of the fragrance of the church body this analogy paints a fairly accurate picture of church life.
One bag made noise but remains unchanged.
Marbles hold their space in the bag while rubbing with great pressure against its neighboring marble.
Each one is a part of the fragrance of the church body.
Grapes on the otherhand mingle juices.
The other bag changed quietly and the contents will never be the same.