We Started a Church
Sitting in a coffee shop I’m ready to talk with God.
It’s just me, a friend, a cup of coffee, a Bible, some books and a jar with a little wine in my coat pocket.
On a whim I called the guy and said let’s meet at the coffee shop at 7:15 Sunday Morning. We had no agenda, no study materials, we forgot the worship band and since we both have jobs we didn’t need a collection plate.
We just sat there and did church. What that consisted of is unimportant. If I told you someone (including myself) might try to make it into a formula.
We prayed out loud but didn’t bow our heads, raise our hands or in anyway try to draw attention to what we were doing. We didn’t need to try to be “Christian Examples” for others to see. What many of us fail to understand is when we do some of those very natural “Christian” things the world is turned off not turned on to Jesus.
I’m not ashamed of what I believe but I lost that desire to be an example somewhere between church A and Church B. Instead I live my life the best I can and trust God to do what He wants with it after all He is God and He’s really powerful.
My dad used to like to pray out loud in restaurants and even hold hands because he thought it was a good example for others. He and I don’t agree on that so I don’t do it. If you do, that’s fine, to each his own.
Towards the end of our time (in church) I pulled out the little jar with red wine in it. We pretended to break bread and drank a little swig of wine, prayed for each other and went home.
It was really quite cool. It felt unplanned and organic.
We’ll probably do it again but there is no set schedule or time. We may meet at the base of the South Sister sometime and invited a bunch of you to join us. We want to climb the mountain and try something really difficult to challenge our beliefs and see where we stand.
My opening statement was a lie. I just used it to get your attention. I have no intention of starting what Jesus already began.
As I think of it how can anyone really start a church? Jesus already did that. Perhaps that’s part of the problem we keep trying to recreate what He already created. We have this urge to add to what needs no additions.
Perhaps we keep planning and building and adding and blah, blah, blah when we don’t need to?
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A hearty Amen…. looking forward to the time when we can do this together Rick!
We ARE the church! Blessings to you!
So many times I have wanted to comment on some of your posts, but I would decide not to ’cause I didn’t think it would do any good. Figured you have your mind set and would just call me one of those ‘religous fanatics’ and brush me off. But I feel I need to comment on this one. If you are a Christian, as you say you are, then you believe in Christ and the sacrifice he made for us. Then I don’t understand why you would you say “We ‘pretended’ to break bread and drank a swig of wine,” Do you not understand the importance of the ‘Lord’s supper’? The Lord’s supper (communion) is something that a Christian is instructed; by God; to do to remember the tragic death of our savior, on the cross…for us. You sound as if you are making light of it. If I misunderstood your statement I apoligize.
Donna,
We didn’t have any bread. I forgot it. It is just that simple. If I did not take the Lord’s supper seriously I would not have done it. That was the point of the story and I’m sorry you missed that.