Alas, likely another uninformative edition.
Forgot to plan ahead on this week's church. Decided to give the RCA megachurch a second try.
Forty-five minutes to the first service...fall back asleep.
Wake up twenty minutes before the second service. Throw on anything. Leave when the service starts.
Arrive...late. Find the congregation has already passed through "Shout to the Lord" mode into "Come, Now is the Time to Worship" mode. Lights are dim. A short video illustration is shown on PowerPoint about a little boy who heard about Jesus and decided to put the message "God loves you" in a bottle. (The resolution: after the boy threw the bottle, he was happy.)
The pastor (whom I'm positive is Jerry Van Dyke's son) gets up. Sells us the sermon.
The sermon is on the Parable of the Sower. Think back to a less traditional interpretation of the message I once heard about the entire time.
Pastor Van Dyke asks those who feel like they're in the rocky soil to open up to Jesus. (What are they opening up to? Why should they? They haven't gotten an argument for doing so yet.)
End of the service: worship pastor says greet your neighbors -- there are a lot of visitors today. On the way out: the lady in front of me says she's glad I was later than she and her son were.
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