How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. [1 Cor. 14:26]
This model of the worship service is the ideal—and I am told generations ago the church more genuinely reflected it. As the Spirit fell on different saints, the rest of them followed the leading of the anointing. They got behind the old deacon's praise song. They eagerly absorbed the old mother's words of exhortation. They made space for a sister's ecstatic tongue or a brother's word of prophecy. They allowed the Holy Spirit free rein.
A wise leader will be encouraging rather than wrangling against the move of the Spirit. He will say, like Moses, that he would "that all the Lord's people be prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!" [Num. 11:29] He will not jealously seek to be the only conduit through which the congregation is blessed; he will even embrace others ministering to him.
What are the worship services like at your place of fellowship? Does the leader occupy a spotlight, or are all the congregants encouraged to participate at the prompting of the Spirit?
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