It’s Church Jim, but not as we know it.

We had our first “experiment” with a different way of bring church tonight, in a room behind the bar of a local hotel. I set the tables out so there were about 6 people around each table. I did 4 little A5 sheet with different discussion starters on. I chose a deliberately churchey theme:

• What do you think of Jesus.
• What do other people say about Jesus.
• Three stories about Jesus, “Jesus seems rude”, “Mary pours perfume over Jesus feet” and “A discussion with a Religious leader”. Each story had a left brain and right brain questions.

I pulled the whole thing together at the end with a short meditation. David played live tinkley music in the background.

These are my initial thoughts:

• I enjoyed it, particularly watching everyone get stuck in with discussion.
• It didn’t look like many people were uncomfortable.
• It was a bit cerebral, but perhaps that was necessary for a first go with mainly church people.
• It would need a bit of variety to survive every week.

I gave everyone a feedback questionnaire. I’m looking forward to the feedback both good and bad.