Thank God for Church............. (By Andrew Pickering)

We thank you God for your church

we thank you for your church in deptford

we thank you for the bits we like and the bits we dont

we thank you for catholic, pentecostal, evangelical, orthodox, anglican, quaker, ecunemical and others

we thank you for worship with loud guitars, church organs, brass bands and tambourines

we thank you for NIV, KIng James and the message

we thank you for charles wesley, graham kendrick, matt redman and sigur ros

we thank you for setting up, rotas and sound desks

we thank you for infant baptism, full emersion, confirmation and birthing pools

we thank you for spring harvest, new wine and greenbelt

we thank you for speaking in tongues, liturgy, and the book of common prayer

we thank you for incense, meditation, marching and waving flags and banners

we thank you for sunday school, scouts, youth church, family services, and coffee mornings

we thank you for door to door, street preaching, mother and toddler groups and gig nights

we thank you for hymn books, mission praise and powerpoint

we thank you for sunday bests, skinny jeans and maternity tops

we thank you for spires, school halls, front rooms and old pubs

we thank you for pews, beanbags and stacking chairs

we thank you for kneeling, shaking and raising hands

we thank you for weddings, baptisms and funerals

we thank you for tea urns, donuts and quiche

we thank you for wine, blessed wine and fruit juice

we thank you for coffee before, after, during or not at all

we thank you for feeding the hungry, giving to the poor and healing the sick

we thank you for cafe church, street church and church church

we thank you for the bits we like and the bits we dont

we thank you for your church in deptford

We thank you God for your church