The first thing that came to mind when reading the header to this thread was ... I hope someone said something about praise! I don't care how bad the speaker is, if the first part of the service is good we would have been able to say that we had been in church!
Make thee
two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. -
Numbers 10:2
Metaphors...
First Trumpet - The Spirit - The time of praise and worship!
Second Trumpet - The Word
Whole Piece - They never take two opposing views
The Assembly - Church service
Journeying - Direction and order of service
First Trumpet - As in....
*** The song service
*** Worship
*** Praise!
*** The Holy Spirit
*** Prayer Meetings
*** Spiritual fruit - The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. -
Galatians 5:22-23
***Spiritual E/c2 - Spiritual Energy (warmth, love, motivation) / Spiritual Light (faith, hope, charity, joy)
Second Trumpet - As in....
*** The Ministry of the Word
*** The Preacher or Evangelist
*** The Circuit Rider of Exhorter
*** Christ Jesus
*** Bible studies
*** Spiritual Knowledge - And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. -
2 Timothy 3:15
And we have had ministry teams such as...
John and Charles Wesley
DL Moody and Ira Sankey
Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver