Deep Calls to Deep – Worship Series
Emma gives details about the ‘Deep Calls to Deep’ worship series….
[NB: All dates are in blue on the calendar to the right.]
I thought I would just write to let you know about the idea behind DCTD and how everyone can be involved! So sorry if you heard this all on Sunday!
I think it is clear that worship is a distinctive of who we are as aardvark. I guess this shouldn’t come as a surprise as the Bible seems to also place a pretty hefty emphasis on worship too (see battle of Jericho, information on Levi duties, Acts, Corinthians, letters to the churches in Revelation and many more…). When I say worship, I don’t just mean singing songs, I mean encountering God. So, in order to be obedient to some of the things that we feel God has been saying to us about listening to him, being holy and set apart, going deeper with him, we thought we would have a go! There is also something about the prophetic - God’s word to us today – that is so entwined in worship and encounter that we feel it is time to explore how the two overlap!
Ruth’s 6-week course called Dancing Your Song was a real inspiration to me – it was exciting to see how the interplay between music, worship, the prophetic and song could happen and it felt like we were touching something new and exciting. There is something really challenging about having to respond to what you feel God is saying in a moment – and quite exposing! So over the past couple of months the idea has been refined and formed into what is now called Deep Calls to Deep!
Our desire is that as many people as want to embark upon this (hopefully) crazy journey of discovering a deeper level of relationship with God would come along! No special skills are required. This isn’t some elite team of people who will then be unleashed on aardvark, this is us as a family trying to discover something more of the presence and power of God. Hopefully what we will be learning will spill over into not only our meetings, but our lives and the lives of all the people we come into contact with! (I have super-high hopes!)
There are 5 different events throughout each month (NB: the descriptions that follow are but a shadow of what will actually happen when God shows up!)
1st Wednesday 8pm: A night when we look at the theology, the theory, the discipleship and the accountability of worship and the prophetic.
Friday following 1st Wednesday 10pm-2am: Night-watch. The Psalmist talks about thinking about the Lord through the watches of the night (Psalm 63:6
2nd Wednesday 8pm: Dance your song. A chance to explore movement in worship – allowing your body to express something words might fail to convey! No need to be a dancer or have any kind of skills as a mover, just a willing heart to engage in what’s going on.
3rd Wednesday 8pm: musician-led evening to write songs, practice singing prophetically, sing scripture, engage with the word of God in a new way in worship…. and who knows what else!
4th Wednesday 8pm: Open Worship! A chance to try and put all the things we have been working on into practice and amalgamate it all together. Hopefully holy mayhem and madness!!
Although we want to shy away from being heavy-handed and overbearing, because this is a bit of an experimental journey we would really appreciate it if you would think seriously and prayerfully about whether or not this is something you think you can commit to. The Open Worship nights and the Night-Watch are open to anyone, anytime and people are welcome to come and go as they please to those. The other 3 nights we would love to have people come who really want to go on the journey and see where we end up together. Obviously things will crop up or work commitments will overlap, but a decision to come to as many as possible would be amazing!
So, sorry this email is sooooo long! Well done if you are still reading at this point! We kick off this week (Wed: intro evening, Fri: Night-watch) and would love to see as many people as possible come along! Even if you only want to come this week to explore what it might be like!
God bless you all this week and may you have significant, exciting encounters with the living God!
Emma and the rest of the A:Team!
Hello. Do you have to be a member of Aardvark to attend the DCTD series?
Hi Kim, sorry for the enormous delay in replying! No, you don’t have to be a member of Aardvark to attend. The next DCTD is 7th December – when we’ll be looking into the scriptures to learn more about praise and prophecy
Thanks for your reply Andrew. I didn’t have the bottle to come to the last session – can you tell me when the next one is please? And are the sessions ongoing or do they come to an end at some point?
Thanks very much. Kim.