Opus 2014-151: Staying Home While Away from Home

I did not go to church today.

It wasn’t a hard decision.  I am traveling and I don’t know the churches in the area.  It took me a long time at home to find one old fashioned enough for me to feel like I could belong.  I would imagine that most of the churches in this area are like the ones that I couldn’t visit a second time back home. 

First, there would be a long period of standing while the home grown “worship team” would perform a bunch of songs that no one seemed to know.  About the only time that the congregation would join in is if they made the mistake of singing an old hymn in its original style.  They never seem to notice that people join in singing at that point.

Then there would be the fellowship time where you are supposed to go around and shake hands with everyone to show how much you care and ignore the fact that you had not talked to them all week.

Then you would have a sermon that either never refers to the Bible or is out of some modern translation that says nothing like yours.  The translation was picked because it says what the pastor wants to say.

So I will skip it for this week and probably next week.  Many write about how they don’t go to church very often any more.  I can understand that.  I just wish that more churches made it possible to worship.

homo unius libri