Pastor Dan's blog

In Doug Pagitt's book, Church Re-Imagined, he says, "In many ways, becoming Christian is much like learning our native language; we pick it up when we are immersed in it. I would guess that nearly all of us spoke and communicated long before we started our formal education. What we then learned in school was not the beginning of language use, but the refining of it.

This past Sunday I said that I hope that we never become so attached to our devices of worship (type of music, clothing, prayer style, etc.) that we lose sight of the God that we worship. How we worship is only important to the extent that it helps to communicate God to us.

We are the church. Holy and Apostolic. Existing everywhere to make disciples of all nations.

Language matters. Do you remember as a kid reciting the below poem and doing the hand gestures?

Here is the church,
Here is the steeple,
Open the doors,
See all the people.

 

Kids laugh about 400 times a day, and adults only about 15.

 

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

 

Do you need a good laugh today? Check out a joke here.

 

Your whole body gets a kick out of a good chuckle. Here's what happens when you laugh, according to research.