Kathryn Ritsema Roelofs

Are you unintentionally sending the message that work has no place in worship? “Leave it at the door and pick it up again on your way out!”

As pastors and worship leaders, we do our best to live into the gospel that we proclaim from week to week. It’s a gospel big enough to contain both our laments, our cries, our hopes, and our joys. It’s a gospel that recognizes and acknowledges the brokenness of our world and still finds a way to offer the hope of Easter morning.

The change of the church season and the participation of the democratic process remind us of the privilege and the call to participate in a greater story being told.

It doesn’t matter how many beautiful and well put together worship services you’ve crafted. What truly matters is how you’ve chosen to love and care for those whom God has entrusted in your worshipping congregation.