Sometimes I say that Lake Forest aspires to be an ancient-future church. Today is Ash Wednesday, and I'm preparing to lead six quiet, intimate services of communion and the imposition of ashes on our Huntersville campus. One way I define ancient-future church is:
1. We are future oriented in mission - changing forms and methods of worship in order to speak the gospel effectively in today's language of ever-changing culture (technology, idiom, arts, servanthood through a toy store, instruments - including alternative adult rock at LFCH and indie rock at LFCD).
2.We practice humility by being ancient in doctrine, as well as through time-proven spiritual practices like Lent and Advent, taking our grateful place in acknowledged succession from 2,000 years of faithful followers of Jesus.
For Lent this year, we are encouraging people to: *Worship on Ash Wednesday, *read a chapter of Proverbs per day (to jive with our new sermon series), *choose a Lenten fast for 40 days, *fast absolutely from Good Friday evening until Easter morning, and *celebrate in Easter worship and a feast afterward.
Here's a succinct, kinetic guide to the purpose and practice of Lent:
oh yeah - thanks to michelle mconnell for letting me know about this video
Posted by: Mike Moses | February 22, 2012 at 09:00 AM