I completely spaced talking about this. Okay, the night I went was one of the "Worship" nights, so I still have to come back sometime for a 'real' Youth Group session. Anywho, it was a lot of fun. The music rocked my socks! (what can I say? I've got a thing for a bass line that you can actually feel pulsating through yourself) And whatshisname, one of the leader guys, tall, skinny, glasses...yeah. He had you guys pray over eachother, and if you wanted to you could have gotten anointed with oil. THIS shocked me. To think that a Proto church would do something so intrinsically Catholic...but then again... Let me explain. Anointing people with oil is one of the seven Sacraments Catholics have (baptism, communion, confession, reconciliation, holy orders, matrimony, and anointing of the sick). We anoint sick people (physically or spiritually) with a holy (blessed) oil and pray for them. It just took me by surprise that you guys would try something like that. Kinda cool, really. The night was cool, overall. Lots of people asking me what the heck I was doing there (recon mission, undercover spy work...
), which I found a bit funny. Now, here comes the big HOWEVER... However, it seemed to be missing something. Maybe it was something I picked up (or didn't) from the song lyrics, the words of the leaders, I don't know what. Maybe it was like Justin told me afterwards. You get out of it what you put into it. I did try to put myself into it, though - give it a fair trial, so to speak. But I couldn't help but wonder... Is something deeper being established here? Would the faith still be there if you take away the friends and rock musik? (I spell 'music' with a k now because that's the German way and it looks cooler
) Do the Jesus Freaks really establish a personal, intimate relationship with Christ? But like I said, I'm going to have to come back again to see more and form a better view of your church.
