wonvoice creative

I’m deliberately going to take 1 thing that Marky boy said, waaaaay out of context. I think that the notion of planning & the role of the Holy Spirit is one that can be highly emotive, & often in the midst of the emotion we can maybe miss what is really happening. I would like to explore a few thoughts on this in the ensuing paragraphs.
I’m all for planning, & I’m all for spontaneity. Does that sound like a contradiction? I think that the two of them can & do mutually co-exist when practised with wisdom & insight. In fact, I would argue that the more planned something is, the greater potential for spontaneity. In my mind, it goes something like this.
Planning exists at a multiplicity of levels in any service; from the loosely put together event to the full on carols by candlelight type thingy that we do once per year. Planning exists at some level within everything that we attempt, & the question for me is more to do with “do we approach it as a help, or a hinder”? Some of my insights are based on the following observations…..
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