Church shouldn’t be a place about defining rigidly thought and practice. It should be a place for exploring God, experiencing God, and challenging our minds and hearts about God. The God that is boxed and defined and worshiped along prescripted, formulaic lines (exclusively), is a God that becomes boring and bored with us. If I ate a tuna sandwich every day for lunch, I would probably, ultimately, decide that I wasn’t into tuna sandwiches anymore or that I wanted one very infrequently.
My imaginary church is called “Ritual Evolution: A Reclaiming Church” (or something like that. Divergent Spirit Ministries? Maybe partnership with product?)
I would so love to be a part of a church that offered worship full of old, meaningful ritual that ties us to centuries of people worshiping and that is a community center that fosters bringing divinity into our lives fully and holistically. Classes, a store, a library… exploration of practices and ideas and scripture. Justice work.
Here are some of my ideas for my imaginary church: Church!
I want my church to be about making better people, a better world, rooting ourselves in the rituals that have given life to our ancestors for generations, challenging our minds and hearts, and welcoming all kind people.
It needs to be low Christology and low church, a “lowest common denominator” kind of theology that can be welcoming, exploratory, and multivalent. But maybe with some incense.
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