Comments on: Rugby café worship

By: Bosco Peters

Bosco Peters — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:19:13 +0000

The italicised portion is mine as much as the first section. As with any parable I guess it can be read in a number of ways depending on the reader’s context. I had not thought of it as limited to the “cafe-church “movement(?)”” but see your point that it could be applied to that. I hope that focus does not distract from the parable’s wider application. I could have made it football (soccer) instead of cafe (it is more widely played and understood), or baseball, or something else to replace the less-understood Rugby. The point is that we can underestimate visitors’ and seekers’ and children’s ability and interest in participating in good liturgy – and there are good ways of helping them be incorporated into the liturgical community which may be better than abandoning liturgy for the sake of visitors, seekers, and children.

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:21:51 +0000

Sorry, I meant the italicized portion. It read like it was from one of those church growth magazines and the first section like a parody on it.

But, it is easy to write a compilation of the essence of what is being said out there on the cafe-church “movement(?)”

Thanks for putting this perspective on it.

By: Bosco Peters

Bosco Peters — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:40:07 +0000

ummm… Joel… “original story”?… “source”? This is the original story. I am the original source

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:55:43 +0000

Absolutely prophetic, Nathan-style.

I am so tired of churches abandoning our heritage for the sake of appealing to the modern culture. Do you have a link to the original story? It would be interesting to read in its entirety and check out the source.

…Are you advocating that worship become more like traditional rugby? (Joking)

By: Steve Hayes

Steve Hayes — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:45:54 +0000

Why am I reminded of Samuel “Erewhon” Butler’s musical banks?