Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Chris!



I LOVE Chris, her and i had a flipping wonderful day together on saturday and I want EVERYONE to know.

Other than that I went to a new Church on Sunday evening.

Now don't get me wrong I love the Church that i work for and the community within that. But there is only 2 people my age in it and we rarely get the chance to hang out as i am super busy on sunday mornings. Thats the real reason, i'm so busy on sundays that i rarely get time to sit and chill out, to learn and grow.

As is the way with church workers. We are so busy that we forget to stop.

I decided to go along to a church where no one knows I'm a youth worker and i can just sit and be still for a while.

So i went along to Freedom Bristol, a church plant that a friend of mine is involved in. It is what i like to call "hipster church." It's trying to be different and that's not bad, they have looked at the culture which they want to impact (predominantly Uni students,) and are trying to appeal to that, so there is lots of lights, and video, and original worship rock style, and hype.

I don't do hype, i do not woop or cheer.

I like to say Huzzah!

So this, this hype is not cool with my style or worship. I'm not saying it is wrong it's just not me.

Cause me, my faith is simple, my way of worship is simple. I don't connect with hype.

But the teaching was really good, and that i connect with. I guess it just makes me wonder, what are we selling people. Whey they come to church what do we want them to leave with?

Just a ponder

1 comments:

Someone You Know said...

I've been wondering on the reasons for going to church and what I miss now that I don't go anymore.
I do miss being able to sing, being with a supportive group of people (dare I say 'fellowship' ;-P ) and the chance to think outside myself about something bigger.
But I don't miss the fight I had to believe, the guilty feeling when I doubted God's promises and actual existence.
Since I've stopped fighting, I've lost church and I've lost faith. But for now it's okay, the little bit of peace from the battle is what I really needed right now.