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A different style of church |
| Posted by Malcolm Egner (mjegner) on Nov 11 2007 at 6:53 AM |
Well the first experience this morning was going to the Pancake House for breafast - it was shut, so we had to go to Starbucks. There are loads of Starbucks in Manila. The prices are very cheap compared with the UK, but for our Philippino friends who were driving, they'd never been there before - Jolly says that for 10 years he had walked by it every day but never been in. For them the prices would have seemed very expensive. To make them feel better at least I was able to say that it was the first time I'd had breakfast in Starbucks.
Then we went to Victory Church in the Film Institute building at the University with about 400 others (the first of two morning services there). The presentation was very polished - but it was a presentational style, and some thought very American. The theme was the Body of Christ, and they used a very clever puppet presentation of body parts dancing to illustrate. The preacher was emphasising the need to be involved in small groups. The service was almost entirely in English, and the congregation predominantly middle class. On the way out the street vendors - the poor - were selling their wares of various foods. I think that in the light of our experiences in the week made it particularly difficult to relate to the service, and there were varying reactions among the Praxis Team. But it was good to be exposed to another part of the wide variety of church life in the Philippines, at a completely different end of the spectrum from the Living Streams churches we visited last Sunday.
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