Worship Experience Response: Fourth Sunday of Advent

Worship Experience Response: Mary 

Today is the final Sunday of Advent! Our season of waiting is just about over! Mary and Joseph draw close to Bethlehem, and in our readings, we focus our attention on the person of Mary, the young woman from Nazareth, chosen to be the mother of Jesus.  

This week’s worship service focused our attention on Mary, too. Mary may have been a simple girl from Nazareth, but her response to God and her beautiful poetry—the Magnificat, which we will read this week in Luke 1:46-55—show that she had unshakable faith and mature understanding of who God is. So, we put ourselves in Mary’s position, and can only wonder how we might have responded to the remarkable events that preceded that first Christmas.  

Use this page to reflect on this week’s worship service. Where did you sense the Holy Spirit stirring your heart? Was it the message, the music, or some other aspect of the service? What was the “big idea” behind the message you heard? What did you learn about God, or about yourself and how you relate to God? 

How can you respond to the message you’ve heard? Is there an action you will take this week to put in into practice? 

Is there someone else that you think would be blessed by experiencing this week’s worship service? You can share the link from our Eastbrook at Home webpage, eastbrook.org/athome.