Comments on: Does It Really Matter? No.

By: Sandman

Sandman — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:02:45 +0000

Curious observation:

There are churches that are only open to the public for a few hours two days out of the week. The members there are not really allowed to stay and talk with each other, as the building will be locked up shortly after the benediction. Where do these people go? Often their own separate ways to Bob Evans, Panera or Starbucks, where they may run into other members. That’s okay. Then there are those chuches have a modest fellowship time. everyyone gathering after church in the foyer or basement under harsh lights swilling weak coffee and scarfing down stale donuts. That’s okay too. Then there are other churches that get derided because their buildings were constructed with the intent to be used every day of the week. And the environment is intended to keep the ministry going even after the service ends, so people are invited to stay and get to know others instead of racing to be the first one out the parking lot.

Is there anything going on in any of these cases that make one church more or less pious/worldly than the others?

By: Rick Frueh

Rick Frueh — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:22:50 +0000

Hey Rick – Is coffee and doughnuts the equivalent of the Table of Shewbread? The electric lights the Candlestick? Ladies perfume the Altar of Incense? Bathrooms are the Laver? And the smoking section outside the Brazen Altar?

By: Rick Ianniello

Rick Ianniello — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:17:32 +0000

We stick with the Biblical model of inner and outer courts and then of course, the Holy or Holies …

By: CRN.Info and Analysis » An Improved Slice

CRN.Info and Analysis » An Improved Slice — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:21:30 +0000

[...] From the top link, there is this Slice Chair, which looks much more comfortable than pews, and looks far more likely to show up in an ECM church than in the proper, cold, uncomfortable sanctuary of Ingrid’s church (I’m pretty certain the pews in Jesus’ church didn’t have cushions, so why should ours?). [...]

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:57:59 +0000

“Can someone tell the new guy from the UK to speak english when he leaves a comment.”

Funny – my wife says exactly the same thing to me (I think I heard mention someting about ‘inflated pomposity’ but that couldn’t have been about me obviously…)

By: Henry (Rick) Frueh

Henry (Rick) Frueh — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:33:25 +0000

Please Julie, Paul forbids that without an interpreter!

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:23:08 +0000

Ian, I just had a blissful moment of reliving art history classes.

Apse. Nave. Transept. Clerestory. Ambulatory.

Ahhhh.

Many thanks.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:37:55 +0000

Never mind I just visited Ian’s site and he’s reading Rob Bell, Phil Yancey, and “Colossians remixed”. No matter how speaks…er…types I love him already.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:35:24 +0000

Can someone tell the new guy from the UK to speak english when he leaves a comment. Or at least dumb it down this American can get it.

By: Tim Reed

Tim Reed — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:29:40 +0000

quantum field theory? (QFT)

Quoted for truth.