Coram Deo

This church was a conundrum.

First, I found Coram Deo because they had an ad on Facebook. It popped up randomly one day (next to the hundreds of "singles" ads I used to get, but thankfully are gone now that I'm "in a relationship with" Robyn) and I thought, wow, a church that's advertising on Facebook, that's interesting. I checked out their website and it looked awfully trendy. So, I decided to check it out.

Well, it sure did look trendy inside. I walked in the front door (oh yeah!) and inside was a very modern looking space. I'd say there were seats for about 100 people (but only 20 ish in attendance), with a cool stage set up front. On the walls were some weird/modern/odd art work. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be spiritual, but it definitely was weird. But over all, the place had a nice design that was very inviting.

And the people were inviting. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Friendly but not pushy. I had conversations with a few people who seemed very cool and relaxed. They told me about the church, how it was a church plant that was started about a year and half ago. At some point, their pastor resigned and they are looking for a new one. Ouch. Not the best way to start a church. . . good leadership is key, people!

Worship started and the band started rocking. Okay, remember how at South Street they didn't have words for the music but they sang songs that people knew, so it wasn't a big deal? Yeah, not here. No words to sing along. The songs were ones I didn't know. Not to mention, the music was "rocking", so you could barely hear what the singers were singing, so it wasn't like you could pick it up as you went along. The one highlight was one song (no clue what it was called) where two guys were playing the drums. It kind of had a Miami Vice intro feel to it. For a second, I thought I was Tubbs (I'm not cool enough to be Crocket).

Since they're pastorless, they had a guest preacher. He was. . . okay? His sermon was on the parable of the wedding banquet. He kind of talked about and kind of talked about what it meant. But mostly he would just segue into other topics. Kind of all over the place with no real point that I could pin down.

Oh well. He's not the regular guy, so c'est la vie, oui oui, oh la la, and all that.

I'm kind of stuck with this church. Part of me thinks, wow, that place was crap. But the other part of me says, well, they're just getting started and had a little set back having their preacher resign. The people were really nice and the one guy I talked to said he really liked it there because they were committed to outreach. Maybe all that outreach is still in the planning stages, I don't know.

So there ya have it. Personally, I'd say give them a few more months to find a preacher and to get things moving in the right direction.

Revvy O'Wanderson