[Magdalen] Coffee Anyone?

[Christopher Hart]

Reminds me of an Episcopal church my wife and I attended a long time ago.
It was mostly high church, but the peace was so informal and lasted so long
that I turned to my wife and said "why don't they just serve coffee now and
get it over with?"

On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> Lutheran Stuff:
>
> My Cousin Connie, essentially raised as a sister, confided in me that
> her oldest son (named after me) and his wife have recently  transferred
> membership from an ELCA parish to a large CLB (Church of the Lutheran
> Brethren) church in the city.
>
> On the one hand I'm concerned because the CLB is quite unlike other
> Lutheran groups in that it is essentially an evangelical  denomination.  It
> has a free-form liturgy of the type one would expect in a megachurch,
> and traces its origin to the Pietistic Movement in  Scandinavia.
>
> I am not enamored by what we call in the USA "Evangelicals".
>
> My cousin visited the church with son and wife recently, and I was  curious
> about her experience.  The church has three services on  Sunday morning.
> The first, which she attended, was rather straight forward with  hymns,
> prayers, and a sermon.  The other two she described as  "contemporary"
> and "Supercontemporary".  The latter is so free-form that Connie's
> teenagers
> consider the worship style over the top.
>
> The service Connie attended began with the singing of several  hymns
> accompanied by the piano and played by yet another of my cousins who
> is the parish ("Bethesda") music director.
>
> Then there was some scripture and prayers.
>
> AND THEN THEY TOOK A COFFEE BREAK!
>
> They returned to the nave proper for the sermon, some additional  hymns,
> and it was all over.
>
> There have been worship liturgies I've attended through the years, where  a
> coffee break during the liturgy might have been very helpful.
>
> Maybe the CLB is on to something.
>
>
> David Strang.
>


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