Out of Ur reports on one of those "I'll pay you to go to church" experiments that happen every now and then. After logging the subjects' responses to "church" (which varied from "huh?" to "this place is real."), Out of Ur asks the important question that rarely gets asked: "Why does the majority of most churches' resources get funneled back into Sunday morning (facilities, staff, programs)? And, in a culture growing increasingly suspicious of 'razzmatazz' is a spectacular worship production still the best way to draw people to God? (Has it ever been the best way?)"
<idle musing>
Exactly! Is church just Sunday morning? Is it a a place? Are all the ceremonies and accretions to that ceremony necessary, let alone biblical?
I submit to you that church is people; that it occurs everyday; that God is in daily life just as much, if not more, than He is in the Sunday morning highly scripted affairs that are supposed to be the highlight of the christian week.
Label me a heretic, if you wish.
</idle musing>
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Great thoughts on the church. Kinda different that what we normally hear, but it seems to ring true with Scripture.
-Alan
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