Thusly, I present to you a perspective on church this morning from Isaac and Eli. This is straight from them. The only thing I did was correct the more egregious grammar issues and change some punctuation.
Without further ado, here a look at our experience at New Horizon Church in three questions.
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Written by Isaac and Eli
Q: Where did we go to church?
A: New Horizon Church with Bishop Crudup in the pulpit.
Which looked like a really nicely renovated Costco (later we found out the building actually was a renovated Costco, because we saw signs that said "park shopping carts here" off to the side).
Q: What was it like at New Horizon?
A: It was an entirely African American congregation and they were very happy about Jesus. We came in a bit late and they had already started worship. At first everyone looked at us all weird-like and whatnot, but after they realized we too loved jesus they were very friendly and inviting!
The people at the doors hugged us all before we walked in. Everyone there was totally into the whole entire service. "Praisssssseee him!" was a common phrase.
But mostly the music was the coolest. Everyone was free and able to just down to get down with their bad selves. Then the pastor came and gave a talk on generosity and he didn't once ask to give the church or ask for a offering. It was totally about being generous to less fortunate people. That was super cool and broke some stereotypes of big churches for some of us. The pastor was very interesting and did some things that we were not used to at all. Instead of just emphasizing really important things, he yelled them. It wasn't angry yelling. It was just letting the congregation know that it was very very important. At the end of his message he started speaking in tongues and then started singing an old hymn.
Then one of the main people's of the church (a red haired larger lady who had been singing earlier, very intensely) started shaking and then fainted (holy spirit or dehydration? Hmmmm...).
All in all it was pretty tubular.
Q: What are some things you took part of today that you would like more of in your life?
Isaac: I wish that we had more of the feeling that you can just raise your hands and praise the Lord and not be looked at weird or anything. It was cool to have everyone totally into and not care what anyone thinks.
Eli: I feel like I could use some more shouting during my messages. Really got me listening and I've never heard people speaking in tongues so that was legit. Too legit. Too legit to quit.
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