One of the most exciting things heard
about for a long time where a DJ
Steve Leach
whose album love meshing with,got his album on CD `right here in this room` well he
recalls a group of Christians.
“open up a big old Anglican church
from about 11.00pm until about four in the morning every Friday night for a
couple of months. It's right in the heart of the town in amongst all the clubs
and bars.”
Where many fail to go a bit like the
Church in A niteclub we have run up north.
So some local Christians, “open
that place up and it's all kind of relaxed music, lots of candles and projected
visuals and poetry, little arty installations, as well as tea and coffee plus sweets”
You see here where the Church often
gets it wrong try to be like those around us, We offer a poor copy but we stuff
place with Christian quotations, Christian respectability.
Here the venue is geared differently.
“There's no start or finish, there's no talk or any 'Sign up for the Alpha Course Here', there's none of that. It's just open, and we invite people who are out and about clubbing”
“There's no start or finish, there's no talk or any 'Sign up for the Alpha Course Here', there's none of that. It's just open, and we invite people who are out and about clubbing”
I often get people saying but why
aren`t you playing any Christian Music,(often do play Christian artist like the
Tribe and EZ7 among others) they mean ….well you wouldn`t know but its ¬stuck
in a Debenhams elevator type muzic¬
“ It's so exciting to be a part of.
The vision for it came from seeing some 25 thousand people clubbing each
weekend at night, that's when all the churches are closed. The following
morning, these people are all in bed and we're all in our churches singing away.”
So we gotta
ask some tough hard questions!
We need to
be open at `whattime o clock`.?
What are we creating in that space we call
worship and that building we call Church?
Where
there's people, average niteclub areas are attracting 25000 people at five hour
periods we worship mostly in a tradition that not fitting the culture!
Why are we not
there in any witness?
Christian or not, how likely are people to
think about?
or encounter God, at those times as and in
what new way?
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