This Friday I did all of nothing special. Though I’ve been thinking of ways to get out there, to be some sort of witness in the crowds of people. I would someday like to start a church plant somewhere. Of course, my reasons for that are a tiny bit selfish as well, considering that it’s likely my church plant would be more youth-oriented and less hey-let’s-have-an-organ!ish. I mean, organs are good and everything for what they’re good at — but I submit to you that they are not good for singing in church with. At least not in our modern climes where no one is used to listening to anything with an organ in it, unless you like goth music or Sig Ros. (By the by, it would be interesting if we had a goth outreach thing, and they wanted to sing with an organ. I can see that happening. In some alternate reality, perhaps.)

Most of these thoughts are provoked by todays churches and their outreach methods. I’d hate to be a armchair coach, considering that I’m involved in all of no outreach programs and ministries and yadda yadda, but what’s up with the marketing, people? I mean, it’s fine to get the word out there, but a church service is about one thing, primarily: worshiping God. Not evangelizing, not being user-friendly, not being flashy and modern and evangelical. This is why I tend to like simplicity above all in church services. It’s fine to have all kinds of instruments (after all, Israel did it), and it’s fine to have a good uplifting message, it’s great to sing a mix of old and modern music; but at the end of the day, I would rather the church be a refuge in the midst of a culture of spin, marketing, and non-stop rushing. Not an extension of it. One of the great things about church is that it’s a time to get away from all the glitter and clatter of modern life, a place not to be assaulted by advertising, a time not to have to be wowed by anything but God.

At the end of the day, that’s what I’d like to start: an enclave of peace in the middle of a nonstop culture. I dunno what we’d call it. But it would be a place to come and get excited about God, not man, music, and multimedia.

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