PSALM OF MISSION

It used to be fashionable for churches to appoint people to be directors of evangelism or mission. What does it really mean? We used to say it meant getting more people to come to church, but then we were told we should be building go-structures rather than come-structures. Perhaps it's something to do with taste? .

1. The flavour has gone out of our world:

our childlike wonder has flown away.

2. God, it is your presence we miss:

you aren't at the centre of our concerns.

3. The secular realm is all we can sense:

our experience limited by material things.

4. Help us to relish true knowledge of you:

so we can become ourselves again.

5. Our recognition of you has been stunted

we need salt to bring out the taste afresh -

6. "You are salt to the world," you said:

so that is my task and my vocation -

7. to bring back the taste of you to our world:

to keep people consciously open to you.