Worship Experience - FleshBloodFoodWater
This is a little blurb to start hyping our worship gathering planned for the night before Halloween. I am choosing not to call it an "installation" because it seems that you have to be british or cool to be able to use that term. Anyway, I like worship experience just as well.

"I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." John 6:53

The idea behind FleshBloodFoodWater is to contrast the "scariness" of Halloween with the violence of the cross, the commercialized costuming and candyfeast with the food of Jesus - his blood, his flesh, his food, his water.

"Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him."

We will struggle with the implications of what Jesus said, just as the disciples did. We will worship, even in doubt, with unresolved questions. We will allow the Father to draw us, even in our incoherence, to the place where the Spirit becomes life to our bones.

"You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."

Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 6:30 PM
At the home of Suzanna and Mark Rickards
2530 Myrica Rd
West Palm Beach, FL
Dinner will be served beforehand.