Showing posts with label gracepres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gracepres. Show all posts

11.01.2009

The Administrative Element of Communion

Since I started working for a mobile church,

I keep a spare box of Body of Christ in my car

in case we run low on Sunday morning.

Once I bought whole wheat matzoh because the store was out of regular.

The pastor choked when he was trying to administer the elements.

When the associate pastor requested salted matzoh,

the pastor choked again.

“Christ has died [cough cough]. Christ has risen [cough].”

One Sunday, I spotted a little girl in a stroller

drinking out of a white grape juice box from Whole Foods

(we serve grape juice for health and conscience reasons)

and I was outraged that her parents (the scheduled communion prep volunteers)

had taken the blood of Christ, the cup of the new covenant,

which I am responsible for restocking!

Then I remembered He was all about “suffer the little children

to come unto ME.”

8.06.2009

kicked in the butt by matt chandler's AWESOME church website pt 3

http://thevillagechurch.net/

kicked in the butt by matt chandler pt 2

i read an interview w/ matt chandler about his church.

they keep their programming lean ON PURPOSE for 2 reasons:

1. to get their people involved with things already happening locally (ie play basketball at the local gym rather than starting a church league)
2. to keep people from turning inward and focusing on what's easiest for them (ie go to the local starbucks rather than employ a church barista on site)

this makes me very excited about grace presbyterian church! we have pretty lean programming, and that can be a GOOD, FRUITFUL THING!

kicked in the butt by matt chandler

http://theresurgence.com/pursuit

7.21.2009