Band Practice Tonight

Tonight is Thursday and so it is our weekly band practice.  I call it "Band Night" sometimes, because that is who is coming over, our church worship band.  It is more than just a band practice, however, as sometimes we don't even get to the practice part.  What we will do is come together and share a meal.  We will share in each others lives and hear the good, the bad, the celebrations and the sorrows.  We will try to be community in the best sense of the word.  We will open God's word together and dig and share, ask questions and make observations and together try to learn a bit more about who Jesus is, what He has done and what He want to do in us and through us.  We will put Jesus and His word at the centre of our community as we try to grow in our faith and be the Kingdom community that God would have us be.   We will spend time in prayer asking for God's help and guidance as we live out the task.  Lastly, we will use the passion and talents God has given to us to respond through music to all that God has been revealing to us, and prepare to lead our larger church family in such a response on Sunday.  The way I see it, it is our way of trying to live out what we see the early church doing when we read Acts 2 and it says things like:

They devoted themselves to the apostle's teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer...They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad ans sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people.  Acts 2:42-47