In Bible class this week we wrote down some aspects of our ideal churches, ideas ranged everywhere from free Starbucks, to private mountains, to Steph Curry as our pastor, from food bars to bible that automatically turn to the right page (so you don’t miss the entire sermon), from being sponsored by nike to throwing tomatoes at people for fundraising, to .. a nuclear factory?! (who wrote that!?). From A to Z, everything was covered. A few sane-minded people actually included a nursery, since babies couldn’t nap in a hard floored gym, and different worship music. In fact, people even recommended church in bed (a great idea, in my opinion) Oh, we also studied the early church in bible, they were alright. But ‘Modern Church 10.1’ has all we need right? Beds, Bars, TVs (to watch church on), and, besides, if you get hungry you can just attack the church walls, they’re made of chocolate. So church is basically candy land, or Willy Wonka’s HeadQuarters. Everything is perfect, right? Sure, as long as there are no poor people, or people who get on your nerves. I mean, ‘Modern Church 10.1’ is perfect as long as nobody does anything to disturb your privacy, or gets on your nerves. As long as they just “let it be”, church should be good, right? No. Unlike ‘Modern Church 10.1’, people in the early church actually shared stuff. They didn’t have their own individual bedrooms to watch TV in. In fact, some people probably didn’t even have a roof over their heads at first. The early church shared, nobody was poor. Your bedroom wasn’t ‘yours’, it was ‘ours’, for you and anyone who didn’t have one. There was no ‘Mine!’. Besides, nothing was really ‘theirs’ anyways, it was God’s. I mean, nothing in ‘Modern Church 10.1’ is theirs either. It’s still all God’s. Okay, you get it now. Selfishness is bad, welcome back to first grade Sunday school. But instead of thinking of how bad selfishness is, think of how great sharing is! Quoted by Carebears or not, sharing is caring, and it seems that the only people we share with is ourselves. You may think us becoming ‘Modern Church 10.1’ is a long ways off, but I can see some glimpses already. I know people who’ve been going to the same church for ten years, and don’t know each other. No offense, but that’s the problem with having multiple morning services (*sigh). Get to know your church family! Don’t be that shady uncle who you’ve never met and your parents don’t talk about because “just because”. Let’s all be family, and family knows each other, and one particularly useful way to get to know your church family is to share. Stuff, ideas, opinions, you get it. Lets be like the early church, and share. Lets get to know each other. But.. You can’t do that reading this blog post.. GO!

See you eventually!

Jacob H