10 Old Trends I Wish The Church Would Bring Back
Call me an old soul, but you can’t say I’m stuck in the past. I just wish church leaders would bring these activities back in the church. I clearly have embraced this new world church founded upon artificial intelligence where your RAM and bandwidth have more power than your memory and you still can’t remember your password to Facebook. We should all thank the smart men in cyber space who want to track our every move with cookies that you aren’t able to eat, for without them the 7 million websites you visit while you’re supposed to be working wouldn’t know how to advertise to you on other websites that use those same dog on tracking cookies that you aren’t permitted to eat. Any who. If you’re new here, I’m blissfully ADHD, and it’s never uncommon for me to swerve to the left when writing list posts, so without further ado
10 Things I Wish Every Church Would Bring Back to Our Sunday Morning Experience.
1. Testimony Service
I understand that the church as we know it, doesn’t have the time to allot for a testimonial service, but I still remember the saints would get up and vouch for Jesus. It was so powerful. It’s something about being a witness for the lord. I received so much faith in those moments.
2. Pew Bibles
I know there’s an app for that too, but do you remember grabbing a Bible from the from the back of the pew in front of you? You’d have to share your Bible with your neighbor if they forgot theirs too.
3. Choir Robes
Haaaaa…….I’m laughing at myself as I write this. We need choir robes to come back in style. Everyone doesn’t have fashion sense or common sense, for that matter- when it comes to standing before the congregation well dressed.
4. Church Dinners
I’ll have a leg quarter, with a side of candied yams, creamed corned, green beans, and a cornbread muffin. Please and Thank You
5. Sunday School
I am a promise, I am a possibility. I am a promise with a capital “P”; I can be anything, anything God wants me to be. Enough Said.
6. Tambourines
Music Stops. Hand hits tambourine, feet stomp floor, while folks begin to think of the goodness of JESUS! CHE*RCH
7. Church Fans
I just want one, I need to know they were real.
8. Church Programs
It was kind of neat, reading a “suggested order of service” subject to change due to the Holy Spirit having its own way. The Holy Spirit must have hated our suggestions, we rarely followed in program. It was still neat to read the names of the sick in shut in, upcoming events, statement of faith, and what not.
9. Children in the Church
Maybe not all of them, but unless your church is anointed to handle the youth, they should sit with their parents. Kids aren’t as sensitive to Christ because children’s church is fun not faith filled.
10. Uniforms. Uniforms. Uniforms.
I don’t expect anyone to agree with me on this one, but just like a man or woman in a police uniform, or a serviceman in his or her military uniform demand respect from those they pass; church uniforms earn more respect from its members.
Uniforms are a badge an honor. They clearly state; I am an usher. I am a missionary. I am a deacon. I am a mother. I am a cook. I sing in the choir. I perform with the drill team. I am a praise dancer.
