Rachel and I recently returned from a trip that involved a 5 hour red-eye flight. On said flight, I slept a grand total of about ten minutes. When we finally arrived at home on Sunday evening, I made it for about another hour before collapsing into bed and sleeping for ten hours. Even now, days later, I still feel the effects of jet lag.
In my weariness-induced state, I got to thinking about how the church needs to develop some church-lag. Wouldn't it be great if the effects of worship stayed with us, like the effects of an overnight flight on which one didn't sleep? Wouldn't it be awesome if we woke up on Wednesday morning, still buzzing from a worship service days ago?
We believe that we are the church in the world--throughout the week, we are God's hands and feet in our homes, our jobs, our schools. Being a Christian is not something we only do part of the time, but we are 'Resident Aliens', as William Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas put it so well in the book of the same name--our true home is in God's kingdom, even while we live in this one.
So how do we, as the church, worship in a way that stays with people throughout the week? How do we live together, connected, as reminders to one another that our hearts should be focused on Christ alone? How do we live as the baptized children of God each and every moment of our lives?
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