Thomas is always a great source of finds and info on the web, especially for relevant/emergent church news.
In his latest he gives a brief look at Andrew Jones’ latest post about an alternative worship service at his local Salvation Army thrift store (Thomas and Andrew are both Salvationists):
But it got me thinking what i would do if i hosted an emerging church alt. worship event at a thrift shop. It could be a blast! I would totally use FOUND OBJECTS from the store itself. Teaching would be from the Bibles already on the shelf and any illustrations would be taken from books on the shelf. Costuming would be encouraged and perhaps an award (voucher) given to those with the thriftiest and yet funkiest outfit. Drinks would be poured out of found jars and jugs into found cups and mugs from the shelves. Children might want to play some found games. Everything is found in the shop. Nothing is imported in. An offering could be taken {in an old hat, of course) for Salvation Army and a blog post with all the details of the service uploaded to a blog so that others might catch the vision to start one up in their local Salvation Army charity store. Maybe its a really lame idea. But it might be trying.
I think that’s a great idea. I don’t know that we could get our church to fit inside a local thrift store, but the more I think about it, I don’t even know if we have a local thrift store that’s open regularly. I think Daniel’s Den is only open a few hours a week. Could be an interesting ministry/outreach to the community in Waxahachie for encounter. Hmmmm.
And in addition, Thomas shares this great image…
Looks like even more of the Sermon on the Mount is popping up in other places.
There are seven different posters in the series. There’s a link to download PDF’s of them all on the Electric Angel website but it doesn’t appear to be working right now. Doh.
But they also have pics showing more of their design work on Flickr.
