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| - Went there for the first time today after an invite from a super nice dude I met on a flight back to Phoenix. When we met there he was kind enough to introduce me to all his church friends and everyone was super nice to me, despite the fact I was probably the only person under the age of 60 there. The 8:30am service attracts this demographic, which I don't mind, but if you do, the 10:30 service might be more appropriate.
The place is big and very well kept. You can tell they applied their funds well. Comfortable chairs, beautiful stage set up. The band was large, about seven musicians, it felt more like an orchestra. Great songs and interestingly enough, the lead singer also happens to be the pastor. I enjoyed the worship part very very much. Four long songs got the blood flowing for sure.
Now onto the service. Well. It was long. I mean, the pastor spoke for 51 minutes. Yes he did. By that point my mind had already gone on laps outside the building and I was listing my grocery shopping list on my brain twenty times. I'm not sure if that was a one of case but boy, he got sidetracked. I wasn't sure about the main point of the message until almost the end. We went from loneliness, to the movie frozen (and we watched three five minutes scenes of the movie, yes we did), to sleeping habits, seriously ten minutes of him giving us tips on how to sleep better ("got to bed at the same time, don't watch tv before bed, etc..." yes, that happened), than Back to Jesus, than we went into the weather, and so on. It was exhausting to try to stay on track with the message because the pastor was all over the place.
He reads 90% of what he's speaking and he attempts to throw a joke in the middle of each sentence. Probably a bit more than necessary. I didn't feel like he was really "feeling" the words he was preaching. He was more like an eloquent gentleman telling a story. Maybe it was just today, or maybe that's the norm, but as for me, I didn't really feel the message. Maybe because he totally lost me with the whole sleeping thing.
They have coffee and pastries by the entrance. I was told during service I should stop by outside and get a gift since I was a first time guest... went there, chatted with a nice man, ladies stared at me, clearing hearing it was my first time there, and just kept doing their thing. Totally ignored me. Fine, I didn't want those shirts anyways. Keep them to yourself, yo!
I don't know. I'll go back and give it another shot. The music is great. The building and structure is fantastic and people overall were nice. And maybe the pastor will actually stay in track and preach for 30 minutes instead of a one hour thing. Amen to that!!
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