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The Brand
November 3 1994
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British Campus of the University of Evansville Grantham England
Worship Styles May be Different but God's Love Never Changes
by Dr. Dan Cooper
Worship of our Lord in an
organized formal manner has
always been a favourite activity
of mine especially on Sunday.
However being at Harlaxton this
fall has limited my opportunities
to do that because of the dearth of
churches. Baptist as I am by tra-
dition and persuasion I have
attended regularly at the
Grantham Baptist Church the
only Baptist church in town and
have found it to a most interest-
ing worship experience. The col-
lege provides transportation to
and from the church of your
choice assuming that your
choice is limited to the four
churches in town but more on
that later.
I know very little about
Baptist denominational organiza-
tions in 'Britain- but Grantham
Baptist in affiliated with the
Baptist Missionary Society and
helps to support missionaries in
different parts of the world. In
fact the pastor is presently on a
month long sabbatical in
Thailand visiting and working
among missionaries there.
The Sunday morning worship
usually begins around 10 a.m.
with an opening chorus and with-
out any prior announcements.
Whenever they get ready they
stan. There isn't always a choir
but when present it consists of
three or four adults only along
with a collection of instrumental-
ists. The "band" seems to be
made up of high school kids who
play the flute clarinet saxo-
phone trumpet guitar violin or
basically whatever is available.
They never play by themselves
but always in an accompanying
role. There usually isn't a wor-
ship leader aside from the pastor
no song leader just a piano play-
er who leads out on the songs and
the congregation follows. The
music mostly consists of chorus-
es that are flashed on the wall by
an overhead projector. A hymn-
book is passed out each week and
at most one hymn will be sung
from it The hymn book con-
tains only the words no music.
They seem to sing a lot of hymns
by John Wesley and other early
authors.
There really isn't an estab-
lished pattern to their order of
worship as I have been there at
least eight times and they have
conducted the service differently
each time. They are very infor-
mal in both worship and dress.
Every song is sung while stand-
ing and often singing interval
may take up twenty minutes or
more. Prayers are interspersed
with the songs and again brevity
in talking to the Lord is not
observed.
The pastor who is very warm
and friendly is really quite well
prepared as a preacher. I always
enjoy his sermons even though
he has a heavy English accent
and is sometimes hard to under-
stand because they are very spir-
itual and timely for todays prob-
lems. He sometimes preaches in
intervals that include singing and
prayer that is spread over most of
the worship and at other times
they are more intact
At the conclusion of the wor-
ship there is no formal invitation
for public decisions and in fact
the close of the service is one of
the most unusual parts of all.
When the pastor is nearing the
end of his sermon he calls for a
song and prior to singing again
has a benediction prayer. This
however does not conclude the
service because sometimes they
will continue singing choruses
for another ten to fifteen minutes.
People however begin leaving
after the prayer while others
sing. Its like you can leave
whenever you want or stay and
sing and fellowship. You never
quite know when to leave! Our
transportation back to the college
arrives at 11:30 and the prayer is
usually given by that time so we
get up and leave so I really don't
know how long they tarry in
song.
Regarding other worship
opportunities the largest church
here is of course the Church of
England (Episcopal). There is a
Methodist church and some of
the students go there since the
University of Evansville is a
Methodist affiliated school and
there is also a Roman Catholic
church. The college will trans-
port students to any of these
churches. Most students who
attend church however go to the
Baptist Church. The Baptist
Church does by the way have a
worship service on Sunday night
but I have never been.
Even though the Baptists
here have what seems to me to be
strange ways they still worship
the same God as I and His spirit
is keenly felt in this small con-
gregation of Believers.
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