have you ever been to church in a movie theater? i can now say that i have. i’ve been church hunting for a couple of months now and it’s no easy task. i kind of had it in my mind that it would be easy, almost fun, but i was mistaken. there are so many questions…what am i looking for? strong teaching, great worship, community. so, in my search, i've been visiting anything and everything. this brings me to the movie theater. the interesting thing about churches in the northwest is that you tend to find what seem to be extremes. you have your traditional, hymn singing, walk in an know exactly what to expect churches. and you have your, meet in a theater or pizza place, extremely non-traditional, everything new, church starts. my experience yesterday was with the latter.
i visited a 3 year old church start called “coram deo.” here are three new things, or “never before’s,” that i experienced….1. i've never before heard a pastor use the words, “chill, money, tight, or my bad” before in my life. granted, this pastor was at least my age, maybe younger.
2. i've never before been told we needed to hurry up and leave because the movie starts in ten minutes and there are paying customers waiting to get in. (side note…the theater we met in was showing SAW) 3. i’ve never before been to a church where everyone looks just like me…young twenty something-thirty something. since i've moved here i've often wondered where all the young christian people are, well i found them, it just took me a 45 minute drive to get to them. which brought up another question…do i want to go to a church where everyone looks just like me? i don’t think so.
so, the search continues...
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