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Thus our Latin American culture is often
characterized by improvisation at all levels when it

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has to do with the church.
We have heard, as many pastors understand

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and entire churches. They even understand
that the best way to prove that the

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Spirit of God will speak through the
preacher is when he comes to the pulpit

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without having prepared absolutely anything, because
then the spirit of God gives him the

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word, he will be able to
open his mouth, proclaim the Council of

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God and there is nothing more unbiblical
than such an idea. Indeed, our

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God is a God who has not
improvised absolutely anything that has happened and will

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happen in history since all eternity,
and he has applied or planned what is

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to happen. The word of God
tells us even in Ephesians, two days

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that we are to creatures made in
Christ Jesus to do good works that God

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prepared beforehand for us to walk in
them. If God, an all-

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powerful, all- knowing God,
a just wise God, cares to plan

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things, to prepare his works beforehand, much more should we, his children,

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with all our limitations, take time
apart in prayer under the direction of

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the same spirit and prepare not only
our sermons, but also the time of

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worship the songs we are going to
sing. How such songs go hand in

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hand with the theme of preaching,
the way the pastor intends to finish the

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message. In order for the final
song to help strengthen the last preaching work,

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we should also plan our meetings and
do assembly meetings, home meetings,

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Bible studies. There should be absolutely
nothing that the Church does that implies improvisation,

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because that would imply, in a
certain way, or an overconfidence in

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ourselves or, on the other hand, would imply a lack of respect,

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of reverence, of honor to our
God so that what we do is excellent,

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which is one of the conditions or
attributes of our God. Having said

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all this, I do not want
to imply that it may ever occur where

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such improvisation occurs simply because in its
sovereignty, God is able to do anything

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and certainly has done it. There
are times when there has been no time,

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there has been no necessary preparation,
and there is a need to respond,

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either in preaching, in prayer,
in times of worship. But they

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are special moments, punctual here and
there that God orchestrates and many times could

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be even more significant than those that
we have prepared. But we have to

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exercise our responsibility and leave exceptions for
our God. We were called to what

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thing to reflect the virtues of him
who called us from darkness into his light

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and in that way, then one
way of how we honor that is by

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planning under the guidance of the spirit, in prayer all that we will do

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in God' s people and with
God' s people for the glory of

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God himself.