The Pope vs. Marty
Recently I’ve had email discussion with my neighbor Michael. This sounds funny to me because I’ve never actually talked to my neighbor Michael face to face. This is about to change soon, as the next time I see him walking up and down the street I have promised to say hi to neighbor Michael, or he will say hello to his neighbor Marty. Last week neighbor Michael made a surprise visit to his other neighbor Fellowship Church. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to talk to neighbor Michael, though neighbor Carie and neighbor Michael chatted a bit, but this week neighbor Michael and I have had the good adventure of discussing life, liberty and “spiritual homes” via email. Inside of our discussion, neighbor Michael pointed out the differences between the church he grew up attending and the FC. His insights were so hilarious, I thought I’d share them with you. It’s okay, neighbor Michael was kind enough to give me permission. Enjoy!
“I don’t think FC is that different than the Catholic Church I went to as a kid except for:
- Exchange priest in white collar with pastor in jeans
- Out with the choir, in with the rock band
- Update paper church newsletter with blogging and tweeting
- Swap priest celibacy with pastor being pressured to have kids
- Convert from reading bible passages from the missalettes to reading them off PowerPoint slides
- Trade seniors (elderly) for seniors (high school and college)
- Substitute consistent traditional mass with unique weekly message
- Replace greeting by priest with holy water with teen greeter holding Monster energy drink
- Change holy wafer (Eucharist) with holy cheeseburger (turkey burgers too)
- Instead of name and address of new members, request Facebook and MySpace page
- Oh, and that Pope guy
Other than that, I’d say pretty similar…” -
Thanks neighbor Michael. We really have to meet some time!
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This is one of the coolest things. God is doing amazing things here man! I think it is so cool that God brings this guy to FC at the time we are teaching our core values. We get to live out building community, not just teach about it. Your doing it man!
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