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Date: 06 May 2007 20:28:43
I walked out of church this evening. I didn't even make it there this morning.
I go to the same church I've been going to since I was 7. Despite the fact that I now live a 20 - 25 minute drive away, I still go there because I work for them. I also sing in the choir (when I have a voice which I still don't), and last week was elected onto the PCC. But despite these reasons I'm finding it very difficult to be motivated to go.
I usually go in the mornings because I have to be there because of my job. Alien comes with me, and it's usually not too bad.
I then sometimes (fairly frequently at the mo) go in the evenings because it's the only time I ever sit and do nothing so it's quite a nice way to start the week and a chance to be 'peaceful', something I don't do well the rest of the week. I'm getting so frustrated at the moment because I can't sing, but then tonights sermon was just awful.
It may be that what he was saying was interesting, but he was reading it word for word from a piece of paper and barely looking up at all. Now I know some preachers find it easier to write sermons out word for word. I have no problem at all with this if it is then delivered appropriately to the congregation. Not read out in a monotone, sounding as if he was going to go to sleep himself, and not even pausing / breathing in the right places - he frequently took a breath half way through a sentence or even word. It just didn't work. He looked and sounded like he was going to sleep, so what hope do we the congregation have?
I wasn't really wanting to be there anyway cos I couldn't even sing, so I left after what seemed like forever, during the sermon. It felt like it had been a long sermon, but it could just been because it was so tedious. It wound me up even more that I'd driven 20 minutes to get there and for nothing, except to drive home.
And people wonder why church numbers are going down.
P.S. A chinook is a helicopter that has two counter rotating rotors - one at each end.