Redeemer

I want to apologize for taking a few extra days to post this past Sundays experience because school got a little hectic.

                This past Sunday Lauren and I went to the Redeemer church. This church was awesome! It was my first time going to a church where you could count the members sitting in the crowd. The experience in my opinion was more personal. All the college kids and twenty year olds sat together and greeted us with open arms. The worship music was new to me but was my favorite new aged style like my home church plays. After discussing the expansion to their own building which sounded great the sermon started.

                The pastor was a younger man compared to the different sermons we have attended. On this particular Sunday the church had started their Ephesians series. The sermon had the constant theme that Jesus changes people. The pastor referenced to the bible multiple times. This was the first time out of all the sermons that a pastor/ preacher actually loved, and was involved in what he was saying (in my opinion of course). I felt that he didn’t have the attitude of “well its Sunday again, time to preach”. Yes, the other worship leaders didn’t have a fed up attitude or anything. I just feel this worship leader was excited about his sermon; he could not wait to teach us on this particular Sunday. Preaching wasn’t a job but a love is how I felt throughout his sermon when I compare him in my mind to the rest of the worship leaders we have seen so far. (Yes I know worship leading should never be a job; that it should always be a love). Since I could feel and see his excitement it made me more open, willing, and excited about listening to what was going to be said. I liked the way that he was able to bring the language of the bible and transform it to today’s events, language, and style. For example he had referenced Ephesus to New York today during a part of his sermon. He also referenced to Craig’s list, and UFC (my notes aren’t legible enough for me to be able to give you the specifics about Craig’s list). The UFC reference was to Acts 19, verse 16. He basically said like in UFC you pretty much fight naked and get bloody but when you lose there is no decision period. You just loose or win. The judges don’t take their time and say “yea, well he may have lost”, “it could be a tie”. No, you win or you lose. He used this to prove that Jesus’s changes people, one way or another Jesus’s changes people.  Throughout the sermon thee pastor used his expressions, sounds of his voice, and emotions to convey his message. I believe by him being extremely enthusiastic about the lesson that Jesus changes people, I was more willing to listen 110% instead of having my selective hearing I tend to have. :/..

I love the way he preached in his sermon, the way he used today examples and compared them with what Jesus was doing in the bible. This week I went out and bought the version of the bible that this particular pastor had used during the sermon. All in all I think I will be attending that church again in the future.

               

 I have to admit we slacked this past week, and we will be taking this Sunday off at exploring different churches. Lauren and I are hoping to get permission to attended Hindu church, or Buddhist monastery in the near future. We are working on getting permission from different places in our area. We will continue and hopefully have an updated if we gain permission the first Sunday in October.

Until next time..

Sunday Vagabond Maya