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Infinte Variety

We attended Millisle Baptist Church yesterday.  It was a special service to mark the end of the year's Sunday School program.  The children participated in the service.  I did not know any of the songs that were sung.  The style was different than any service I have been a part of in the last year.  I sat in an uncomfortable chair in an overflow area of the building.  There were a dozen things that I could have complained about if I had the mind to.  But. . . God was glorified.  Therefore, it was a service worth attending.

We serve a God of infinite variety.  The evidence of this surrounds us in His creation.  Yet when we come to worship, we want to limit acceptable worship to our own particular style and preference.  It is good to occasionally expand our boundaries and observe how our brothers and sisters in other places and cultures worship our same Lord. 

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