Church Is Lame.
29 Dec
Every Monday evening I attend a small church of people (roughly 20-30) attempting to follow Jesus together. It’s pretty simple really. We sing a few songs, someone shares on a topic of Christian spirituality, we break into even smaller groups to share on a more personal level, and then we leave. It takes about 2 hours to go through this progression. Josh and Mindie Runnels lead the group and being their friends we help out quite a bit. I like it.
It’s amazing how hard it is to keep something simple though. There’s always the temptation to do more and try to become more cool. We aren’t very cool. In fact I would argue alot of the times we’re very lame. We aren’t the best at planning ahead and the electric piano we use for worship is very old and unpredictable. However, I think we love each other most of the time. For me that’s enough.
I remember about 10 years ago I sat around with a group of up and coming worship leaders and we dreamed of how church would look when we were adults. We imagined people swinging from trapezes and fireworks during the sermon.
Who would have thought we’d be leading something so lame and loving it.
haha, i love it, we are super lame, but for whatever reason it really works. I have had many nights sitting there looking at everyone singing, discussing, etc and say to myself why do these people keep coming back? This is so weird. We do not have any kind of strategy or system to keep them coming.
Maybe that’s what following Jesus is about… not as much strategy as it is relational
Agreed. Even as we look to improve the “lame” parts of the group we need to remember that the most important thing is love. If we don’t have that then we got nothing. If we do have that then we got all we need.
Ha such a great post. I agree with yalls comments. Love is where it’s at- love for the Creator, and for each other.
Oh and for mother earth. Having just watched Avatar and all.
I missed this one the first time. I love it.