I know, I know. i have slacked the last week or so in the blogging world but here I am. So last sunday was my first attempt at church shopping. I have attended the same church for the past 7 years not missing a sunday unless I was on vacation so I now find myself in a unique position with the abilitiy to see some other churches. This past week my family and I attended Next Level Church (www.nextlevelchurch.cc), it meets in the Flix theatres in Lancaster. I had received a mailer about a month ago about this church and it definately piqued my interest. It had a look and "feel" that seemed like something I might really enjoy. Well the service was pretty good, worship was decent and pretty up to date, speaker seemed pretty relevant, congregation was smaller and older than what I expected though. Seemed like an authentic pastor and congregation but not something I would probably make my home church. I am going to visit some other churches for the fun of it over the next couple of months and then try to reflect via the blog on my experiences. Really making me realize how special what we had going on at epic was. Praying about how that community and church can go on. We'll see, stay tuned.
2 comments:
hmm church shopping, very interesting. can't you just do all of your shopping on the internet these days? just go to amazon and see what they got.
seriously though, it's a very good idea to survey local churches to see what they all offer; you can take all the good aspects and fuse them with what's missing in the area and BAM! western hills is born. please note: covenant membership is NOT a good aspect.
so thoughts about wednesday nights: the group is growing and although the movie idea is good, i think we are all looking for a little more. a smaller group of us stayed late and started doing worship songs pretty late into the night and it was awesome. i'm thinking we could incorporate some of that into the night, maybe with a nice little message from sean read or yourself. what i'm really saying is i want epic part 2 on wednesday nights. what do you think? oh and "unplugged" might be the way to go for now, haha
Jim I like to call it church homeless myself but church shopping works too. I think we will start our adventure this weekend. Matt I am with you an Epic two at your house sounds great to me. Love you all and miss you too.
Dee
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