People and worship

Small congregations: fact.

This has to be seen in the following context. I played the organ at a local church flower festival this week for an hour on two afternoons. I am told that there was a constant trickle of people during this hour and there was certainly plenty of conversation and interest in the displays near the organ. When I went for my free cream tea the church hall was packed.

I conclude that people are not anti-church as such. In fact they are keen on supporting their local churches and would be devastated were the church to close. Hence, the problem must be that people are not interested in religion, the style of worship offered by the church or sitting in a building for an hour being brainwashed.

What is a church service? It is an hour in which people mumble a few words now and then, sing very badly, get told how wicked they are and spend a few minutes actually praising their creator.

They get told to carry Christ into their daily lives and show him to others. With so many misguided decisions and dishonesty in the world it is easy to get downhearted and fail to do this.

• Partygate and obfuscation from the PM
• The use of bee-killing pesticides
• The stupidity of government in the proposed return to Imperial measures
• Road building on good farm land
• House building on good farm land
• Immigration (unchecked)
  
• the NHS
• Huge salaries for CEOs
• The general malaise in society
• Oh, and war in the Ukraine
• Pollution
• Rising prices
  

What a world we live in. No wonder people do not see the relevance of church. We may pray for things to get better but people have been doing that since the psalms were written.

Odd then, that a few flowers can make then flock to a building.