Church

I have become the blogger who never blogs!!!! I guess because I really dont know what to say.

Here is my latest rant. I hate the way church buildings are set up and the way church services take place. I dont like the auditorium set up. It really encourages the idea that we are going there to be entertained. Church is so much about the people, but the design makes it so official, it almost discourages fellowship. I just dream of a place where people go and pray together, talk about their lives, encourage each other, and read the bible together. I envision a place where we can help each other to grow. Not a place where we just sit and watch and listen. I dunno, I guess when I read the new testament I just feel like the church was so much more that what it is today. I dont picture the apostles and believers sitting through services and putting on a happy face and their 'best' clothes. I picture the church being so active, so alive. Now it seems all that it is is just tradition. It seems like now we spend so much time and effort maintaining our beautiful buildings, and build programs that will get us more people, that we have somehow left the idea of the church as Christ had intended behind.
Tonight I am going to college and career. I suppose I would say that I am going to church. Where believers are gathered to fellowship and strengthen each other. Going to church is a weird term. For some people, it is all about a sunday morning service, that is church. But God does not live in a building, and his church is not a man made building. Take away all the tradition and all the garbage and politics, take away the pews and the communion tables, strip down the stage where people perform, and burn down the very walls, and you know what you got? The church!
(in no way do I promote the arsen of church buildings, just trying to prove my point)