Hello readers,
In reply to my last two blogs which seem to have raised a lot of comments, either questioning my thinking or not understanding the point of the post (dave!) I thought I’d make an explanation post.

Remberance Sunday
I think perhaps my wording on this was quite bad, and the points people raised do make sense, and Laura, thank you for your comment which makes more sense than all the others.

I agree that the bible says there is a time for sorrow etc, and I would be the last person to say ‘i you feel crap you’re not a Christian’, and I don’t think everyone should go to church a happy bunny, we should be honest with God. However I think the whole thing and basics of my original post go down to the ‘I can’t relate to it thing’, which in all honesty is a fairly pathetic arguement and kinda goes against everything I think church shouldn’t be (if that makes sense), by which I mean that I don’t think church should be about me, me me, but about us us us, and I guess just because it’s something I don’t relate to doesn’t mean it’s pointless, just means at the time of blogging I fail to see the point. So take this post as an apology if I offended you by my original post.

Church

My post about ‘what I don’t get about church’, was more of a pondering, I think in my mind I wanted to think if there was something about church that attracted people other than God (as in God attracting people whether they realise it or not), and I think unless you’re a ‘all the hype money can buy’ (to quote benvolio) and therefore a ‘Sheep-Shuffling’ church then there is nothing about the church (or nothing obvious) that does attract people other than God, and to be perfectly honest I think to an extent that’s how church should be, churchs like PCC, Proclaimers, Audacious and various others seem to almost go for the ‘Jesus plus’ option, there is nothing wrong with it, as long as the church stays focused on God not ‘look at our massive screen and awesome P.A’, I think these things can really help a church (and I know I’m going around in circles) but by it being attractive it’s more likely to be noticed (like Jennifer Aniston!!!). I guess it’s back to my old thought circle about these mega churches, and whether they help or hinder worship, and to be honest I don’t think there’s an answer other than, depends on the church and how they do it, same goes for the less hyped churchs, if they do it well people will benefit, if not then perhaps not so many, but at the end of the day it’s where the heart of the worshipper is at, if I go to church thinking ‘This will be crap’ or ‘Can’t be arsed to worship today’ then chances are I wont try much, might just murmer songs, doodle in the sermon and not get anything, but if I go to church with a mind thinking ‘I’m gonna worship God with all my heart no matter how crap I feel today’ then I will benefit from it, not because God will definately speak to me but because it makes him first, King David’s psalms sometimes go along these lines ‘God, everything sucks, but you’re good, you’re amazing and I’m going to praise you anyway’ and I think that’s where our hearts should be as Christians…

Anyway…ramble and apologies over

Posts coming soon: The Top 5 ‘Good Mornings’ and ‘Worship…a lifestyle?’