Worship in the Church of the Nazarene in Africa .... How would you like to sit for two hours on these seats? Note the data projector, pipe organ, baptism font and PA system.
Richard Zanner as guest speaker in the Sunday worship service. Note how everyone has squeezed onto the seats. If you come late, you get the floor space.
Lighting's not a problem .... it comes through the roof.
Trevor, thanks for the post, I would feel that I am part of this congregation, i recall alot of our churches in the islands, and PNG would be in the same catergory, wooden sits, sitting on the floor, and, thunderstorms through the grass huts, but what is the message, it is not about having good buildings, comfortable seats, but the desire and hunger of worship for God that matters, what is important is the heart that a creature has for his creator.
ReplyDeletehey, thanks Dorothy. This gives us some perspective. Thanks also to Trevor for highlighting the architectural differences here. Wonder what this says about our discussion about worship?
ReplyDeleteThis is a conversation worth pursuing! Culture and worship ?? Do we in comfortable West create expectations that are tangential to the work of worship?
hi, you'd notice also that although the church/benches are not that decent many people are hungry to hear God's word and that is why they would squeze their way in. Worship as Dorothy says is about God not about us. Trevor you make me homesick, however, am preparing to enter churches similar to the photos you've presented this christmas holiday. Certainly I am looking forward to preach in a similar environment this christmas.
ReplyDeleteI envy the Aficans in their simplicity of building structure, uncluttered void even from today's techno era and all the more thankful than we are that "Jesus is LORD", A sobering reminder that we don't need all the modern parifinalia to praise God..it isn't about how weel we praise, how pure our music, how clean the graphics...IT IS ABOUT JESUS and not us...so well said Oliver.
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Joseph Riley