We have landed! This has been the shortest time I have ever spent in the BC zone - surprising since I entered the zone with little confidence that we would find a place that would be compelling enough to keep me engaged. I was resigned to drift between churches, being content to sense the direction of the wind of the Spirit and follow.
I kind of liked being in the BC zone. It freed up my tithe to go directly to the community. No need to pay dues to an insular club.
We landed in an unlikley place. They meet in an actual church building, dilapidated, partly burned down, but a building nonetheless. There must be 20 people in attendance on a Sunday morning, which is interesting to me and raises some questions in my mind.
What can I say about it? The worship team's got it right. They are as talented as any church I have ever attended, but the way they do worship is unlike the others. It feels less about working up emotion and displaying the talent and more meditative, even though the play many of the same songs. They sang a Bob Dylan song for the communion song!
The preaching style reminds me of the late John Wimber of the Vineyard Anaheim - plain language, compelling message, comfortable, no formula, no cult of personality.
The first Sunday I attended, I heard 7 words that have been frequently in my thoughts over the past several years, but rarely if ever heard in my previous churches - two of them: social justice and kingdom.
The fact that they are so small both puzzles and delights me.
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