Comments on: Temple Beth Messiah http://www.thewayithink.com/2007/03/24/temple-beth-messiah/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:16:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rick http://www.thewayithink.com/2007/03/24/temple-beth-messiah/#comment-5225 Rick Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:40:37 +0000 http://www.thewayithink.com/2007/03/24/temple-beth-messiah/#comment-5225 My idea is that of retiring jerseys. In sports, they retire a player's gear after a while, churches should carry the same idea. Work a "tradition" until it fades away, then retire it! Then, in the church lobby, have a glass case with represenative symbolic items that remind people of that tradition. Then, with that, people that are new to the church, don't have to feel uncomfortable with kissing things,dancing, or call and response. Seriously, I felt lost at my parent's Methodist church just trying to follow all of the call and responses, mixed with the hymns (which I later noticed my mom bookmarked all of the hymns using the 15 pages that she got in the program when we walked in). With this, new traditions can come and go to satisfy the traditionalist in church, OH YEAH! while trying not to scare people away that are just finding a relationship with God. Did I mention that I was scared of church folk before I got saved? :O) Actually, some church folk still scare me.....but I am workin on that. My idea is that of retiring jerseys. In sports, they retire a player’s gear after a while, churches should carry the same idea. Work a “tradition” until it fades away, then retire it! Then, in the church lobby, have a glass case with represenative symbolic items that remind people of that tradition. Then, with that, people that are new to the church, don’t have to feel uncomfortable with kissing things,dancing, or call and response. Seriously, I felt lost at my parent’s Methodist church just trying to follow all of the call and responses, mixed with the hymns (which I later noticed my mom bookmarked all of the hymns using the 15 pages that she got in the program when we walked in). With this, new traditions can come and go to satisfy the traditionalist in church, OH YEAH! while trying not to scare people away that are just finding a relationship with God.

Did I mention that I was scared of church folk before I got saved? :O) Actually, some church folk still scare me…..but I am workin on that.

]]> By: Larry http://www.thewayithink.com/2007/03/24/temple-beth-messiah/#comment-4805 Larry Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:56:42 +0000 http://www.thewayithink.com/2007/03/24/temple-beth-messiah/#comment-4805 I think there is a way to preserve the traditions through symbolism and still make it relevant by figuring out a way to tie it into today's culture. Does that make sense? I think we(meaning the church)never really try to find ways to do that. We just use the same old traditions in the same ways. We need to break that habit... I think there is a way to preserve the traditions through symbolism and still make it relevant by figuring out a way to tie it into today’s culture. Does that make sense? I think we(meaning the church)never really try to find ways to do that. We just use the same old traditions in the same ways. We need to break that habit…

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