| Kingston
United Methodist Church 9 Church Street, Kingston, NJ 08528 -- (609) 921-6812 -- KUMC1878@verizon.net | Sunday Worship, 10:00 a.m. Children's Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. |
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| Kingston
United Methodist Church 9 Church Street, Kingston, NJ 08528 -- (609) 921-6812 -- KUMC1878@verizon.net | Sunday Worship, 10:00 a.m. Children's Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. |
According to the Christian writer Eugene Peterson in a book called "Practical Christianity", God gives us various means to grow spiritually. These include "prayer and Scripture, silence and solitude, suffering and service. But the huge foundational means is public worship."
Spiritual growth cannot take place in isolation. It is not a private thing between the Christian and God. It is also a public thing between your brothers and sisters and you.
In worship we come before God who loves us in the presence of others whom God also loves. Together we sing God's praises and worship Christ.
In worship, more than at any other time, we set ourselves in deliberate openness to the action of God and the need of the neighbor, both of which require us to grow to the fullness of Christ, who is both God and man for us.
Regular, faithful, public worship is as essential to the growing Christian as food and shelter to the growing child. Worship is the light and air in which spiritual growth takes place.