Monday, November 3, 2008
One Big Family
I simply want to celebrate publicly the wonderful event in the life of our church family yesterday morning. We had our "One in Christ" worship service, cramming all of our weekly attendance into one worship time in two electronically connected rooms. It was a technological feat for us to pull off this rapidly changing two-way simulcast, but the technology only served the deeper challenge of helping our whole church worship and connect together as one big worshiping family.
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So one service, but two voices...my computer makes the video echo and you have two voices. its pretty cool. interesting how ones mind adjusts after a while. :-)
Yeah, that was a rather annoying, (obviously) unintended result. Thanks for tuning in, though. We'll fix that if we ever do this again.
yes we will! -Woops- my fault.
despite it all. it was great. when we are weak HE is strong.
Amen. That was the best thing about Sunday. It was not a show. It was the community's act of worship. It was a time of God's Spirit moving in and among us.
One big family? Definitely a countercultural trend for which our culture seems to hunger, but has no idea how to go about filling the satisfaction. Life and people are so strongly categorized that those categories become proscriptive to the depth of identity rather than merely descriptive.
Thus, the imagination is left wanting for ways of being one big family.
So I commend your strident efforts, yet point out that your website indicates the flcwb imagination is still more so captured by segregating categories than a one big family category.
E.g. "Children" "Youth" "Young Adult" "Adult" "Senior Adults"
Where's the "One Big Family" tab??
Keep rockin it for Jesus!
Good insight, Grant. This will be something to think through. As we cultivate a greater depth of community, we're still going to have people of different ages with some different characteristics and needs (and btw, in spite of the audio echo, you should check out the 11/2 podcast for some of what I was trying to say about generations especially). Unity doesn't preclude diversity, but it must be the larger category. It'll be a challenge for us to think through how we present our different generations (or "stage groups" as we call them) but still communicate and inculcate the the truth that we are family first and then individually members of it.
Thanks for prodding that point.
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