Holiday Weekend

We decided to fix a picnic lunch and head to the park after church. Beautiful day, with a breeze that made the shade very nice.



I don't think the church this morning was "it" for us - while we both appreciated the children's activities and the smaller groups for their classes, the main service seemed a little... stilted. The senior pastor was on vacation, so someone else filled in. A clip from Secondhand Lions was shown (towards the end of the movie it looked like, and made us want to add it to our Netflix queue), trying to say something about "wanting more", and that's why people look for things to fill their lives because they want this elusive "more", and only in Christ can we be truly filled with "more" - but it (the clip and the visuals) seemed forced. And I'm a stickler for a good metaphor, but his stories seemed to break down in the wrong spots. It seemed that the goal was to address a topic and see what the Bible said, instead of seeing what the Bible says and then showing how it impacts a topic - subtle, but very different in the way you approach scripture as a congregation. Very "seeker-sensitive", but felt like it lacked depth - not fair after one visit, but that was our general feeling as we left.

"And Patience was willing to wait..."
[from Pilgrim's Progress, quoted in Streams In The Desert]

Finding a new church home shouldn't be easy. But it will be fruitful. I trust the Father for that. Even this message that "didn't do much for me" was still on target: we need "more" so we seek after the Father for our filling, and we seek Him together as His church, His body.