In an article on Sunday Assembly, which apparently is pretty successful in London and is test marketing the USA, the Washington Post describes a meeting of about 60 people who responded to an ad to start "a godless congregation." You can read a description of the 90-minute meeting in the WP link. The writer says, the Sunday Assembly idea has attracted attention "...mostly
because [the founders are] speaking to an increasingly secular society still
hungry for two commodities organized religion purports to provide:
wonder and community."
This is sad on a number of levels. Two that come most quickly to mind is that 1) people are trying to manufacture what the Lord has already offered and 2) the Church, in many cases, hasn't provided a connection to the wonder and community that is found through Christ (note the word, "purports," in the quote above).
November 10, 2013 update: Yahoo has a story about the founders' visit to Los Angeles here, which attracted far more people than the DC gathering.
Friday, November 8, 2013
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