Thus our Latin American culture is often characterized by improvisation at all levels when it
has to do with the church. We have heard, as many pastors understand
and entire churches. They even understand that the best way to prove that the
Spirit of God will speak through the preacher is when he comes to the pulpit
without having prepared absolutely anything, because then the spirit of God gives him the
word, he will be able to open his mouth, proclaim the Council of
God and there is nothing more unbiblical than such an idea. Indeed, our
God is a God who has not improvised absolutely anything that has happened and will
happen in history since all eternity, and he has applied or planned what is
to happen. The word of God tells us even in Ephesians, two days
that we are to creatures made in Christ Jesus to do good works that God
prepared beforehand for us to walk in them. If God, an all-
powerful, all- knowing God, a just wise God, cares to plan
things, to prepare his works beforehand, much more should we, his children,
with all our limitations, take time apart in prayer under the direction of
the same spirit and prepare not only our sermons, but also the time of
worship the songs we are going to sing. How such songs go hand in
hand with the theme of preaching, the way the pastor intends to finish the
message. In order for the final song to help strengthen the last preaching work,
we should also plan our meetings and do assembly meetings, home meetings,
Bible studies. There should be absolutely nothing that the Church does that implies improvisation,
because that would imply, in a certain way, or an overconfidence in
ourselves or, on the other hand, would imply a lack of respect,
of reverence, of honor to our God so that what we do is excellent,
which is one of the conditions or attributes of our God. Having said
all this, I do not want to imply that it may ever occur where
such improvisation occurs simply because in its sovereignty, God is able to do anything
and certainly has done it. There are times when there has been no time,
there has been no necessary preparation, and there is a need to respond,
either in preaching, in prayer, in times of worship. But they
are special moments, punctual here and there that God orchestrates and many times could
be even more significant than those that we have prepared. But we have to
exercise our responsibility and leave exceptions for our God. We were called to what
thing to reflect the virtues of him who called us from darkness into his light
and in that way, then one way of how we honor that is by
planning under the guidance of the spirit, in prayer all that we will do
in God' s people and with God' s people for the glory of
God himself.