"Holy Disruption" - Advent Midweek Worship

Join us for our midweek worship during the Season of Advent! We will gather each Wednesday night throughout Advent (December 3, 10, and 17) in the sanctuary at 6:30pm.


The season of Advent carries two simultaneous visions of our expectations: we await yet again the birth of the babe in the manger, and we also await Christ’s coming again to fulfill all things. We often prepare for Advent by “getting ready”: planning, organizing, and ordering supplies for various gatherings and worship services. Yet preparing for the coming of Christ is not a matter of having everything under control. Christ’s arrival disrupts—disrupts injustice, sin, and brokenness in a society in which we are deeply embedded. A prayer for Christ to come to us is a prayer for a holy disruption of our lives that we cannot control and that we might struggle to accept.


This midweek Advent series based on the Service of Word and Prayer in All Creation Sings (pp. 42–45) is built around four steps to help us recognize our resistance to God’s inbreaking and prepare for God’s holy disruption: breathing, releasing, receiving, and rejoicing. Each week’s liturgy will focus on one step. Although worshipers can benefit from each service individually, each step builds upon the ones preceding. Together they form a spiritual discipline that reminds us (as does the liturgical year itself) that discipleship is always a process requiring intentional practice. Advent, the first season of the church year, reminds us to return to our sense of longing for and expectation of God’s coming into our world. In this worship series we pay attention to opening ourselves to the holy disruption of God’s inbreaking promise.

You may also like the following events from Advent Lutheran Church:

• Next month, 13th December, 09:00 am, Cookies with Santa in Patrick Afb
• Next month, 13th December, 05:00 pm, "A Christmas to Believe in!" Children's Christmas program and worship service in Patrick Afb
• Next month, 14th December, 10:00 am, "A Christmas To Believe in!" Children's Christmas program and worship service in Patrick Afb