Flags in the Minster
09-19-2006, 04:00 PM
Thanks for all your encouraging words.
As for asking permission, yes I always do. I make a point of it. Some churches just do not like flags (I hesitate to say that I dance!!) and I have always tried to ask in such a way as to make it easy for the other person to say no if that's what they want to do. I see it as part of the respecting/obedience to leadership thing. I have on a couple of occasions been denied permission and done my best - with difficulty - to accept the decision with good grace. Wasn't easy though!
As for Ian White - well, no - I'd never heard of him before! Which made it a bit disconcerting when my friend very pointedly told me he was "only a world famous, internationally renowned worship leader, that's all"!! To which I just said, "Well what difference does that make, we're all brothers and sisters in Christ!" But she clearly thought I had a perfect cheek in asking him!
And his reaction was not just delight it was sheer delight! He said "visual worship - oh, wow - yes please! Fantastic!" And when I said there was two of us he added "Even better!" And after he came and gave us both a big hug and thanked us for helping him out. :buds:
Now THAT'S humility!!
About the pilgrimage - I have decided to do it for Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Not as a fund raiser or anything but as an act of worship to minister to them. This just speaks louder and louder to me. I will not be able to do it in one journey but a visit at a time. I want to make a start in Durham Cathedral which is one of the oldest in the country and finish in Coventry Cathedral, one of the newest!! That's if I'm permitted, of course!
Durham
<IMG content="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b286/flagady15/durham-Cathedral_Inside.jpg">
Coventry
<IMG content="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b286/flagady15/CoventryCathedral.jpg">
As for asking permission, yes I always do. I make a point of it. Some churches just do not like flags (I hesitate to say that I dance!!) and I have always tried to ask in such a way as to make it easy for the other person to say no if that's what they want to do. I see it as part of the respecting/obedience to leadership thing. I have on a couple of occasions been denied permission and done my best - with difficulty - to accept the decision with good grace. Wasn't easy though!
As for Ian White - well, no - I'd never heard of him before! Which made it a bit disconcerting when my friend very pointedly told me he was "only a world famous, internationally renowned worship leader, that's all"!! To which I just said, "Well what difference does that make, we're all brothers and sisters in Christ!" But she clearly thought I had a perfect cheek in asking him!
And his reaction was not just delight it was sheer delight! He said "visual worship - oh, wow - yes please! Fantastic!" And when I said there was two of us he added "Even better!" And after he came and gave us both a big hug and thanked us for helping him out. :buds:
Now THAT'S humility!!
About the pilgrimage - I have decided to do it for Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Not as a fund raiser or anything but as an act of worship to minister to them. This just speaks louder and louder to me. I will not be able to do it in one journey but a visit at a time. I want to make a start in Durham Cathedral which is one of the oldest in the country and finish in Coventry Cathedral, one of the newest!! That's if I'm permitted, of course!
Durham
<IMG content="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b286/flagady15/durham-Cathedral_Inside.jpg">
Coventry
<IMG content="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b286/flagady15/CoventryCathedral.jpg">
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