This illustration assumes the congregation...
Illustration
(This illustration assumes the congregation has been supplied with rubber bands.)
You have a rubber band attached to your order of worship. If you have not already removed it and zinged it at someone, take it now and loop it around one finger on each hand. As you pull the fingers apart, the tension on the rubber band increases and so does the pitch of its vibration.
Everyone of us experiences stress in our lives. Employment pulls against family. Physical sickness pulls against spiritual well-being. Financial limitations pull against wants or real needs. Within families, and churches too, contradictory expectations strain relationships.
Emotional stress is essentially the result of the same phenomenon. If you experience stress it is because two on more forces are pulling away from each other. Almost any change in the way life has been for you on me creates a degree of stress. A new pattern pulls against an existing pattern. At the outset, even vacations are stressful. Success itself can be stressful. Ordinary fishermen, accountants and carpenters have been out preaching, counseling and healing the sick. There has been extraordinary pressure on them. They had been so busy they had not even had time to eat. They clearly needed "a deserted place by themselves." Do you?
-- Bond
You have a rubber band attached to your order of worship. If you have not already removed it and zinged it at someone, take it now and loop it around one finger on each hand. As you pull the fingers apart, the tension on the rubber band increases and so does the pitch of its vibration.
Everyone of us experiences stress in our lives. Employment pulls against family. Physical sickness pulls against spiritual well-being. Financial limitations pull against wants or real needs. Within families, and churches too, contradictory expectations strain relationships.
Emotional stress is essentially the result of the same phenomenon. If you experience stress it is because two on more forces are pulling away from each other. Almost any change in the way life has been for you on me creates a degree of stress. A new pattern pulls against an existing pattern. At the outset, even vacations are stressful. Success itself can be stressful. Ordinary fishermen, accountants and carpenters have been out preaching, counseling and healing the sick. There has been extraordinary pressure on them. They had been so busy they had not even had time to eat. They clearly needed "a deserted place by themselves." Do you?
-- Bond
