You Can't Go To Church

In 1990 Acappella Vocal Band put out an album called What's Your Tag Say featuring a song that plays in my head almost every Sunday (Check out their stylin' album cover above - apparently featuring Kevin from The Office). The song is called "U Can't Go 2 Church" and here's a little sample of the lyrics:

"You can't go to church as some people say
The common terminology we use everyday
You can go to a building, that is something you can do
But you can't go to church 'cause the church is you
Cause the church is you"

This past Sunday, instead of our regular morning gatherings, Watermark held a "Day of Service". We told everyone to wear comfortable clothes and when people arrived we had 41 school buses parked outside our church filled with cleaning supplies and tools. We had thousands of people spread out all over the city cleaning up schools, tidying up parks, and serving people in need.

I was a bus captain/site captain for the Vickery Wellness Center, a Christian community program located right in the middle of a low-income apartment complex. Our Junior High ministry has spent the last 4 years building relationships there by hosting two summer day camps for the children in the community. It was so encouraging for me to be able to take almost 50 people over to clean the entire facility, make several repairs, and replace all of the computer desks in their computer lab with brand new ones which were paid for by over $2,500 in donations made exclusively by our Junior High students!



One of the people working with us mentioned to me that it was weird for her to miss church. I told her that we weren't missing church at all and that what we were doing was probably the most accurate representation of what a church should really be! You can't go to church...the church is YOU.