Simple Worship

When is the last time you simply worshiped? Whether it be singing, praying or just reverend silence...What a blessing it is to be able to simply worship. We as American's take advantage of that blessing constantly. In other countries people have to hide their worship. Here we can worship in everything we do. Now sometimes how we worship may come off kind of weird to the people of the world but it still is just simple worship. I know in China people have to hide their praise with code words and basically in silence. Here, we can shout to the rooftops and standout in a radical way! Just simply WORSHIP! The sad thing is we never do it and if we do we don't do it enough. We don't take full advantage of our freedom, our liberty, our rights. We were given the right to freedom of religion and we have that.

Liberty

This past weekend Hampton Heights Baptist Church had an amazing celebration and ultimately worship. We spent the whole day Saturday giving the community a block party.
Oh the kids, I just loved seeing the kids just have fun. Bounce houses, tractor train rides and police/firemen cars to explore. It was was just fun. Then Sunday, August 29 exactly 60 years ago Hampton Heights had its first service. This past Sunday we celebrated that in pure worship and by having service how we started 60 years ago, in a tent.

What a sight! 269 people worshiping in a tent! It was just plain and simple -worship-. You would never know from this picture right next to this was an empty large, once gorgeous (and soon to be gorgeous again) chapel. Yes, one day we will be back in there, but something about being in a tent is a reminder. It is not the building that is the church it is the people...

"And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it."                              Matthew 16:18

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