


Pictures best viewed with "I Want More" from new Faithless album "No Roots" in the background (Spotted it on Playlist of Hopeful Amphibian's blog)
Ideas and visions for new expressions of church can be very "structural" i.e. what's new church going to be made of?
These snaphots of the foyer of the City Art Gallery in Manchester reminded me that it doesn't matter what the lifts and stairs are made of, or how attractive they look. The question in worship is "where will they take us if we climb them?"
Are worshippers taken up into the presence of God, or do they stay on ground level oohing and aahing at the nice "architecture"? (It is nice architecture though!)
I want worshippers to be curious - what will happen if I go with this? Where might it end up? Do we show them where the first step is? Where the lift button is? Is it obvious where to start climbing should they wish to do so?
Recent experience would suggest that the first step in creating curiosity might be asking the right question and resisting the temptation to rush in with an immediate answer.
As mentioned in a previous post, someone said recently that at the end of the Christian basics course in which we used a Matrix clip, they were curious "to follow the rabbithole to see where it went."