Found one. I stumbled onto the church's website while looking for something completely different. It (a church plant) is in my literal neighborhood, a few-minutes walk down the street and through the park. Lots of things I like, some things I'm not sure about yet (I'm one of the oldest people there is one of those things). But the final selling point: MID-SERVICE SMOKE BREAK!!!
So maybe the 5-7 minute break between the singing and the sermon isn't "advertised" as a smoke break, and maybe they don't "officially" condone or approve of the mid-service smoke break, and maybe Peter would or wouldn't have "stepped outside" for a smoke between Psalm-chanting and scroll-reading, and maybe, even, I should have been inside "mingling," but it sure was great.
Posted by ghetto monk at November 14, 2004 09:43 PM | TrackBackyay!
Posted by: bobbie at November 15, 2004 03:52 AMI'm all for meeting new people, but mingling is sometimes overrated.
Posted by: Heather at November 15, 2004 06:33 AMI'm glad, Jeremy.
Posted by: emily jane at November 15, 2004 06:45 AMGreat! You should email Dr. Dalbey and have him add "greeting with a smoke" as an option for an aspect/element of worship to his worship class.
Posted by: rob at November 15, 2004 10:17 AMperhaps, you ought to teach some people the sad-you-see song during the mid-service smoke break. that could make it almost like a mini sunday school class . . . or something like that
Posted by: zach at November 15, 2004 12:15 PMjeremy... it IS a smokebreak, I just tend to smoke in the bathroom where no one can see me. it is better that way as a pastor and all.
thanks for worshipping/smoking with us.
Posted by: steve at November 16, 2004 02:53 PMI could've sworn I posted a comment here yesterday....
:-?
Posted by: jon at November 20, 2004 11:26 AMOk, here's approximately what I thought I posted the other day, in case anyone cares:
Is this church part of any "emerging church" network (e.g. Allelon [see http://allelong.org]) or anything like that? Btw, Anglican Bishop Tom Wright gave some lectures recently on the emerging church - "The Future of the People of God" talks, available at http://opensourcetheology.net. I haven't listened to them yet - they're on my "to listen" list - but I've heard good things.
Posted by: jon at November 21, 2004 01:02 PMThanks for the link, Jon. Since I did some thinking on the emerging church for my blog lecture, I'm sure I'll enjoy reading.
Posted by: jeremy at November 21, 2004 06:14 PMhere's the deal on the emerging church thing (for jon above)... I am so not up on it that when my wife and i came up with the name for the church we didn't even know that there was this "vintage faith" movement thing happening, nor some guy in santa cruz with books and a church by the same name! my research since on the whole emerging church thing has left me with a bad taste in my mouth... a bit too interested in itself, a bit to eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater, a bit too quick to be relevant before being faithful. thats my outsider perspective, insiders say that i just don't understand, but i'm used to that.
anyway... Enjoyed the Tom Wright stuff too.
Posted by: steve at November 22, 2004 08:07 PM