Show i'aiiy ssjstjsiej fii)r iiyfjrvyiya The Salt Lake Tribune Give Thanks Not a Recap Or a Sermon Contemporary Services Spring Up at Churches Continued from BY LORI BORGMAN INDIANAPOLIS ner "Dear Lord thank you for this food We also thank you for this cloudy rainy day with a high of only 49 degrees which we were forced to spend inside cleaning closets and organizing drawers We pray that tomorrow the cold front would move eastward and a high pressure system would bring five hours of sunshine which would top out at 80 degrees" The weather prayers were our own doing We taught our kids prayer was simply talking to God telling him what's in your heart Little did we know two of them had the hearts of meteorologists Though the kitchen table is where many families do the majority of their praying a fair number of table prayers have very little to do with food I have it on good authority that some parents have been known to take advantage of a hungry audience and work in a mini-lectu- re "Heavenlv Father we thank you ior mis tooa ana pray tnat the mouths that receive it will learn to speak with a little more respect refrain from name-callin- g snide remarks and shrill volume" I suppose the only thing that keeps me excuse me I mpan other adults from delivering sneaK attacKs more often is the fear that sometime an ominous voice will boom out: "CLEAN UP YOUR OWN ACT FIRST!' Kids may include the weather along with the tacos but at least tney re nonest with their prayers They lay their cards on the iaDis ana leave tnem there Adults lav their cards on the table and can't keep their sticky hands off Our prayers often resemble multiple choice test questions we inciuae two or three possible answers to a request as though God doesn't nave enougn creativity to come up with something on his own There are times when the prayers are either so bossy or boring I yearn for the liturgy ana tradition of days gone by A memorized prayer with direction meter and rhythm sounds appealing My mother can still recite the prayer sne and her classmates said every day before lunch at me country scnooi uear-Uo- d - ieei- - w or-th- e Speed through that at about 935 words per minute and you'll have the full effect OK so maybe I was wrong about memorized prayers Any prayer without heart is as appetizing as meatloaf recycled six nights in a row Jesus saia to avoid vain repetition in prayer When your prayer is so " repetitive and lifeless that uoa s mina starts to wander it s time to try something different Surely the author of imagination does not object to a little variety alternating the formal with the informal the spoken with a moment of silence pray ing after the meal instead of be fore or singing it instead of sav ing it And from a few table graces during wnicn rve steam watched disappear from the casserole crisp salads go bmp and ice melt in glasses I do not oeneve uoa nimseu would object to brevity What really matters is slow ins the pace lone enough to re member that provisions on our laDies are guts — wonderful undeserved generous gifts wolfing down such gifts without thanksgiving is as unthink able as roasted turkey without pumpkin pie Lori BoTgman is an India napolis-base- d freelance writer whose column appears in The Indianapolis Star calls what she Schaedler's "balanced preaching" of Bible truths and social concerns "Worship lifts up the Lord Jesus and the focus is on the heart" she said Cook who describes her religious background as "charismatic Episcopalian" said she likes contemporary music in worship but also likes to occasionally sing the "old favorites" like "Amazing Grace" Even churches that follow a liturgy or order of worship are into contemporary worship For example Provo's St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church launched a teen Mass in October in which contemporary Christian music a blend of rock gospel and praise is prominently featured Salt Lake City's All Saints Episcopal Church started a nontradi-tiona- l service 6 pm on Sundays several weeks ago "We haven't publicized it as an attempt to attract boomers or unchurched but any time you have an untraditional service using guitars you're trying to reach people who are not attracted to traditional services" said the Rev Daniel Webster curate of All Saints The informal service includes the Eucharist and features con temporary guitar piano and folk music Salt Lake's Holladay United Church of Christ has offered a contemporary worship service Sundays at 9 am since September The Rev Diana Gates Collins the associate pastor leads the mostly musical service The ser mon is short built around one or more of the five senses — she dropped pennies when talking about the story of the Widow's Mite — and uses inclusive lan guage in reference to deity or 45 minutes we are free to worship as we are creating new traditions without the worry of what is proper" wrote church member Bill Green in the church's December 1997 newsletter "What a unique experience it is to come to a service where you can sing — really sing from the heart — on key off key it doesn't THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A nondenominational Chicago church has found a winning com- bination to attract the CAU mom 337-3- rn o s un- churched according to a Salt Lake clergyman who recently visited it The church is Willow Creek n Community Church in South a Chicago suburb The cleric is the Rev Jeff Silliman veteran pastor of Salt Lake County's Mount Olympus Presbyterian Church He and Kathy Terrion Mount Olympus' pastoral assistant attended a leadership conference at Willow Creek in late October The Willow Creek formula is right out of the popular guru trend of the 1980s and the folksy advice generations have fondly attributed to mothers Know what you want Develop a plan to achieve it Involve people and do the best with what you have And offer contemporary services — even include drama presentations — to create a visual aid for a visual culture Willow Creek is the nation's quintessential megachurch It attracts 15000 worshipers to its Bar-ringto- p Silliman said Mount Olympus has no plans to become a megachurch one of those churches that attract several thousand or more to weekly worship But it is interested in the unchurched or what Willow Creek calls the irreligious "Appealing to the unchurched has been one of our purposes for corporate-ma- years" Silliman said many "We're not going to become a tochurch but tally seeker-orientewe want to be one that's open to people to reach out and touch people with the gospel of Jesus Christ "I look at Willow Creek as a church that does church the best way they can" he said "We want to be the best church we can be" d bines some traditional and contemporary music The church needed an additional Sunday service Erickson said and it was decided to have one Lutheran Church Salt Lake City offers three Sunday services and the most popular is the 9 am contemporary worship It features largely contemporary music and draws about 140 people each week according to John Erickson assistant to the pastor About 30 attend the traditional service at 7:45 am and 100 the 11 am service which com that would attract the B-- l Lake City's Cathedral of the Madeleine A reception follows The feast day actually is celebrated on Dec 12 That is when most of the parish churches will observe it Salt Lake City's Our Lady of Guadalupe parish will mark the holy day with a vigil service and recitation of the rosary an ancient and popular prayer of intercession to the Virgin Mary at 5 am At 7 pm there will be Mass and a meal afterward St Marguerite's parish in Tooele will celebrate it Dec 14 with a 5:30 pm Mass featuring Spanish music In a cultural and social sense the apparition was a signal event The Virgin was the mother of Jesus Christ who was worshiped by the Spanish conquerors who had toppled the Aztec empire The trauma of the conquest and the empire's quirk dissolution left a political cultural social and religious void in the lives of the local peoples The Virgin appeared to one of the conquered indigenous Indians not to a Spaniard And when she did so it was in the form of an Indian woman in European dress And the words she spoke to Juan Diego were not in Spanish but in Nahuatl the Aztec language The incident has since been celebrated for affirming the worth and dignity of the Indians as a people and for reminding the mission" nagement guage" Our Saviour's Continued from Spanish of the inclusiveness of the gospel of Jesus Christ According to the story Juan Diego was walking along a hillside when a woman appeared to him and asked that a cathedral be built in her honor at a particular site a place where Spaniards and Indians could be reconciled Juan Diego went to the local bishop and told him about the apparition and the woman's request but the prelate did not believe him Juan Diego left and in subsequent days made it a point to avoid the area where she appeared Despite his change of route the woman appeared to him a second time and presented him with roses although it was a cold winter day and the flowers were out of season She told him to gather the flowers in his serape and offer them to the bishop He heeded her advice During Diego's second visit he opened his serape to show the bishop the roses The flowers fell to the floor and painted on the cloth was the image of (he woman who came to be known as Our Lady of Guadalupe It was enough proof for the bishop The cathedral she had asked for was built and remains popular with pilgrims to this day un- churched "The contemporary service has all of the elements hymns of praise communion" Erickson said "We sing the creed the Lord's Prayer so it's a little dif- Deliverance Temple Church Of God In Christ 1311 S 900 W Salt Lake City lit Sunday Services Sunday School 9:45 cti tt iiiint tlri How To Be An Instrument of Real Peace 11:00 Morning Worship 956-295- J Wednesday Evening WorshipBible Study 7:00 saiuruay intercessory rrayer 9:00 "Sharing The Word Of Faith" Mike Fotfceringham ferent" Pastor lovingly invite you to come see what s happening and share the experience Blessings! 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Holy Eucharist 9:30am TO ADOPT A NEEDY r"AfLY B3 l Jennifer Cook a Metro member for the past three years was drawn to the contemporary worand 1997 With Chicago Church BY 1'KTKR ship Saturday December SL Pastor Impressed STAR AND NEWS It used to be if we missed the weather report on the 5 o'clock evening news we knew we could catch a recap around 6:15 The television would not be on then but one of the kids would be praying before din- dren's-need- B-- RELIGION "T"-ejrpj-i Mwn J Rm CewrUT lOOtS Utrfsjieti R4 254-- 1 'GodLtmes FsmHia' m it |