Sunday, January 20, 2008
Coincidence?
The church we attend has a pretty typical Sunday schedule for similar churches around here. Sunday school for an hour on Sunday morning, followed by a more-or-less one hour morning service, winding up about noon time. Later in the day, our evening service begins at 6PM, and ends around seven. Nothing unusual about that. Until this morning. It was announced that on Sunday February 3rd, we will be deviating from that routine. That day, we will have our regular morning schedule, but immediately after morning service we will be holding a pot-luck supper, and that will be followed by a "time in the Word and singing", and there will be no evening service that day. Now ignoring for the moment that there is nothing "pot luck" about the meal (You're asked sign up for what you are bringing, sort of a "rigged" pot-luck), I could not figure out what would bring about this radical change of schedule. Being an engineer and naturally curious, it occurred to me that something like this happened last year, and the year before, all about the same time. Hmmmmmm, it seems that this just happens to coincide with the Superbowl game! Coincidence? Perhaps, perhaps not. Would the schedule really be shuffled to accommodate a football game? Doesn't sound like something our church would do, but who knows? It was not stated that was the reason, but then again nobody said it wasn't.

So for the sake of discussion, let's assume that the Superbowl is, in fact, the reason for the schedule change. Why hide the fact? We're not likely fooling anyone.I propose that we make it the centerpiece of the event. I think that next year it could be announced as the:

Super Bowl Super Sunday Super Service!!!

Imagine the possibilities. For the real die-hards, there could be some tailgating in the morning, with the mini-muffins, yogurts, grapes (separated into tiny bunches of 5 grapes each), coffee and juice (for the young-uns, ya know...) set out on the back of a few pickups. We could burn some books in barrels to keep warm. After that we could head off to the standard morning activities, but would lift, for this day only, the normal ban on face painting and giant foam "we're #1" hands. After the morning service instead of a rigged pot-luck supper, we could substitute a "half-time show" maybe featuring some singing or drama team from one of the local boarding schools that seem to have an ample supply of such troupes, and maybe a marching choir. That would be followed a half time recap by a panel of experts critiquing the morning message, and trying to predict what the pastor will come up with in the "second half." Perhaps the folks in the assembly could be given a certain number of "time-outs" that they could call if the message got too dull or controversial, or they could try to sack the pastor, while the ushers tried to block. The possibilities are endless. Done properly, I'll bet everyone would pretty much forget about that football game.

I'm expecting a call from the church's activity planning committee any time now.
thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 9:06 PM
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