Well now, where to begin. Pastor made a couple of comments in Last Wednesdays evening service that pulled my chain. He doesn't believe that the church has a responsibility to bring people into a frame of worship. He says that we are supposed to come to church ready to worship. I told him he is a utopian. That many people need time to quiet their minds and hearts before worship can really begin, he says no. He is wrong.Period.
On another note, he is preaching from Mark, using one part of a parable of Jesus for a sermon and the second half of the parable for the second sermon. I'm sure that he got the stuff from a book. He says that we need to put on new clothes, that you can't put a new patch on old clothes. He is right, however, before we put the clothes on, we must be careful that we arn't simply putting on faddish clothes. It seems that the church today, much like education, is driven by fads. What ever the latest large church/emerging church guru says is the way to go. "out with the old, in with the fad". Worship is not meant to go the way of the Nehru shirt and fur vest.