What Do You Miss Most?

I was asked this the other day. ”What do you miss most about not being together for church?”. I did not have to think about it long. ”Sharing with others. Seeing, talking, praying, laughing, crying!”(I left out ‘touch’ to be CDC guideline appropriate.) We can replicate on video a semblance of a worship service, some music, scripture, a prayer, a sermon. But it is difficult, nearly impossible to pretend that it is what is called in the original Greek of the New Testament ‘koinonia’. Some say this equates with our modern word fellowship, but I think that just doesn’t measure up.

Because I believe this ‘koinonia’ is just as vital a part what it means to be the church as worship, nurture and mission I am proposing an option that might offer us at least some sense of ‘koinonia’,  by offering each week via Zoom something I will call for now ‘Check In’. It will give an opportunity for us to spend 30-40 minutes ‘together’. I see it as part prayer meeting, part conversation about what is going on in each of our lives, and part just sharing. I need your input on when the best day/time to have this ‘Check In’. I am leaning toward a mid week, perhaps on Wednesday evening (In the time frame we normally would have Choir, PW, etc).