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No sanitized prayers enter this space. God wants it all and wants nothing held back. Lament starts to look familiar---it sounds and feels just like prayer, but honest prayer.

This Sunday, as many people across different denominations partake in our respective communion practices, my prayer is that we truly lament the power we have allowed the Thief to have in our churches and then recommit ourselves to oneness, accord, and unification.

Worship is so much more complicated and nuanced and important and rich! We cannot reduce it to the generalizations or categories of (old) hymns against newer modern songs, or youth v. seniors. Because even in trying to find labels (so we can find ourselves on one side or the other of this argument) we fall short.