Pews....

I think it is interesting to think that most people associate church with sitting in pews. The pictures to the right were taken at a church where we held a new years day youth rally, in Choma, Zambia. The pews look different than my church but they are still the supposed "place of meeting with God". The problem is that pews are human made, and as soon as we relegate that to the hows and whys of meeting with God we have missed the whole point of Christianity. It is a relationship that happens everywhere, all the time, if we are looking for it. I think of this last trip to Africa, and I see where God met me and it wasn't always while sitting in a pew. It was in the back of a van talking about the dreams of reaching of world for Christ, it was staring at Victoria falls, it was lying on the ground in pain under the stars of Chabbaboma and feeling His hand take away that pain, it was sitting around with friends talking about life and where God has taken us and our hope for tomorrow. This is where church happened. I believe every conversation, every experience, every sight can be a glimpse into God. But are we looking? Or are we waiting to sit in the pew to see God?