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Worship leaders course with Rev Richard Atkinson

Richard outlined to us what worship is and what aspects of worship we would be concerned with. We became aware of structures and formulations that generally underpin a Sunday service, but we worship because we are called to worship. Mark 12:30 (New International Version) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Worship should be heartfelt, spiritual and mindful; it should involve the whole service, the whole congregation and our whole lives. We looked at different types and forms of prayer. For example we considered prayers of confession and atonement (types) and at various ways of arriving at suitable prayers for a given occasion. We talked about where to track down existing prayers, about writing our own, either from scratch or modifying existing prayers, and about extemporising our own prayers. For all of us this involved exploring in areas we had never visited before. We thought about how hymns might b