The Silent Treatment
On Sunday, we learned about the discipline of Silence. In fact, we’ve entered into 4 week period of Basic Training: Silence. As a church, we will be keeping at least 5 minutes of silence each day for the next 4 weeks. Please do not feel the need to fill your silence with prayer or Scripture. Rather, just remain silent before the Lord and allow his presence and his voice to reveal themselves. We remember in Exodus 14:14,
The Lord will fight for you. You have only to be silent. (ESV)
Furthermore, we asked you to write on your LINC cards something that you would ‘turn off’ in order to reduce the amount of noise in your life. We had a great number of responses. I want to encourage you by listing some of the things that were mentioned in the LINC cards that people will be turning off for the next 4 weeks in order to practice silence:
Listed is what was mentioned (with any specifics that were mentioned) and then how many of you responded with that:
- Radio (car radio, sports radio, at work) 9
- TV (Korean drama) 7
- Music (while driving, during meals) 4
- Computer 3
- Cell Phone (Blackberry) 3
- iPod 3
- GChat
- YouTube
- Excessive Chattering at the office
Amen! Keep up the silent treatment!
Posted: July 22nd, 2008 under Picture, Sermon, Video, Well by RjL.
Tags: Silence Silent Treatment