My wife spent her time in high school attending a a cappella church in Holly Hill, FL so our first weekend in Daytona we went there for church. It was also the church we were married in 5 years ago. It was great to see all the people we know and hear some great preaching of forgiveness from Ephesians 4:31-32.
It is different to attend a church after working to build a high quality worship experience for our student ministry to a a cappella service. I like a cappella. I can attend services and worship without instruments. I can’t stand when they bring up how you don’t find instruments mentioned in the New Testament. It is really funny that we use the same verse they do to prove the use of instrument in the New Testament
Eph. 5: 19 “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord”.
Things people in the church take for granted like know what is going on, I was lost during communion, at Islands we got the emblems and then took them in unison and this church you got the bread first and took it then they passed the grape juice and you took it. No where in the bulletin did it explain they did it that way, no one explained it for the visitors from the stage. At Islands we printed in the bulletin and on the screen so that no guest was left trying to figure it out themselves. It is odd being a guest and not knowing what is going on but a guest that has never been in your church or the church ever can get so lost and we need to do a better job and analyzing what experiences a first time guest is going to go through at our church.
