Today was visit to church number 3. In comparison to the blog last Sunday, this one will be mercifully short.
Let's just put it this way -- in a nutshell, today's visit made us both extremely glad we are members of College Church in Wheaton.
We spent the first 40 minutes standing and singing. Well -- others sang. At the 11th repeat of the 7 words, I finally got it. To their credit, there were a couple of hymns I recognized. Included in that 40 minutes was communion. Now, at College Church, communion is a sacrament -- a worshipful time, accompanied by scripture, prayer, music, meditation and self examination. First the bread is passed around, and then the "wine" (not sure it is Welch's -- probably Jewel brand). No matter --
Here we stood, and two little cups were passed -- one on top of the other; the bottom had a little square of something -- hmm -- maybe 3 mm square -- and the top one had a half a communion cup of juice. We "held" until all had been "served" so we could "partake together." It certainly is expedient, and for this church, the largest we have been to thus far, communion was over and done with rather quickly.
Then we got to sit down.
The sermon was, um....forgetable. It was loud. Lots of yelling and pacing back and forth, bad grammar, and a young white man trying to sound like a black street preacher.
Yo, man!! We are not tempted to return....
I went to CostCo and picked up a delicious key lime pie for the birthday celebs next weekend. The members of the 9 day club which started in middle school will all be here -- Michael, whose birthday is today -- Tim, who is August 9, and Sam -- August 18.
I can't wait to see them all!
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