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Me church - Nearly NCYC Service

At the Nearly NCYC service, I was impressed by the ‘me-church’ clips, which originated in the US, and feature people asking for various bribes to get to church. (I’ll come to church if I get tix to the Superbowl…)

I wrote a post on a suburban mall church at my blog, which featured the type of people who I thought were pretty good consumers. The sermon was a glorified marketing seminar, and the service was customer service.

Now, my church probably doesn’t do this all that well, and recently when I was given some feedback on my handling of a morning service, I told the person that “liturgy is not really my passion, but I’d try to do a better job next time.” Phooey Customer Service!

But church is an intimately personal experience. If you don’t get something out of it, there’s no good reason to attend. I’ve found this in trying to convince young people from my church to come to NCYC. “What’s in it for me?” “Justify the expense.” It’s hard, as we all view the world from within a set of concentric circles with the ‘ME’ one at the centre.

Caring for others, Finding Jesus Christ in an increasingly ME focused world can be liberating. I hope NCYC will encourage young Christians like myself to renew our passion for caring for others and finding Jesus, as well as nurturing our own needs.