Communion Details

Yesterday started sharing a little about doing communion at a church for people who don’t like church. Here are a few more thoughts… The first week of Verve we passed around gold communion trays that had cups of juice and broken up pieces of matza crackers on them. (By the way, I’m not a fan…

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Communion Every Week?

If you’ve never been to Verve, something that might surprise you is that we offer communion every week. Why do we do communion in the service, versus at some other time or in some other place? Well, we don’t believe the service is for non-Christians. If you come to a Verve service you’ll see that…

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Death to Life

One of our goals at Verve is that everyone would read the Bible everyday. Not out of religious obligation but because it’s life-changing. So we put together an annual Bible reading plan, and have daily posts on the Bible reading of that day at vervecatalysts.org. I LOVE today’s reading – Ephesians, chapter two. The first…

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The Opening Song (Part 2)

Yesterday I explained that we start most Verve services with an opening song, and began discussing what kind of song we’re looking for. First, we want it to be a song people know, so it can help build a bridge and bust stereotypes. Second, we want the song to be upbeat, so it can help…

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The Opening Song

Most weeks at Verve we start our service with an “opening song.” We’ve found a loud song will help bring people in from the lobby, stop conversations and get people focused. We have a few things we’re looking for in an opening song, and I thought it might be helpful to some of you pastors…

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