The New Church?


So I am pretty fed up with the church these days. I don't know about everyone else, but it seems so boring and planned out. Too much routine. We totally put God in a box and say, "You know what Lord, if you want to speak to us you have to do it in this one hour..during these three songs..and now we are only singing the course once, and we will repeat song two but just once...." and so on...it bothers me. It seems like it's the same prayers every week too..."Please be with these requests...and be with us as we go out...be with us as we sit here and listen to your word"....I know that there are so many people who go to church just because it's what you do. And their minds wonder during the sermon because they don't really want to listen to it. And they stand and sing the songs just because they are told to. I hate it. I hate it all. I don't think that is at all what God intended His church to be. So why can't we have a new kind of church? What if we had a church that was open all weekend..and you go whenever you feel like you want to...whenever you can...that sort of thing. What if church wasn't a bunch of people telling you when to sing, when to pray, when to listen...what if you got to pick what you wanted to do to worship the Lord? In my mind I think of it kind of like this...a building that has a coffee bar with snacks...rooms off to the sides where small groups of people could go and discuss whatever is on their hearts...maybe has some speakers in some of the rooms...a stage that has worship going all the time...a room just to go and read if you want..a room to go and pray if you want. and you could pick what you felt you needed to do...just sit and fellowship, worship, pray, listen...whatever you felt would be the best for you to get connected with God that day. And you could stay as long as you wanted...you could come as much as you wanted...then God would not be put in a box so much.

click on the tyler photo site to see all of tyler's pictures!

have any of you ever made your baby food instead of buying it in the jar? just wondering if i could get some pointers.

I don't know if you guys know about Ted Haggard..who he is or what he did...he use to be my pastor..but his story lately has got me thinking. What do you guys think about being gay and how God views that. I know He loves the people still, but hates the sin. But we all sin. We all have things about us that God rather us not have. I have a very dear friend who is living the gay lifestyle and she still claims to be a christian. I wonder what God thinks of that? I know it's a struggle for her, I can only imagine what kind of struggle that is. So hard I am sure. I know that being gay is not right...I guess it's just a confusing subject for me. I don't agree with being gay but I just wonder what you guys think. What you think God thinks..that sort of thing.

Here are some new pictures of Tyler. He is a week away from being four months old! The picture with him and his uncle was the day of his dedication. The other pictures are just random ones from hanging around the house. Enjoy!