I’m gonna go see a movie tomorrow afternoon after work as a cool way to kick-off my 111-hour holiday weekend, and I’m gonna go to our very own Flagship Cinemas 14 here in Homestead to do so.
During the final 9 months of 2006 (the year that the movie theatre opened for business) I saw 13 movies there.
Exactly one year ago this weekend the movie theatre became the place where I go to church – or rather – the place where I meet my church every Sunday morning. I don’t actually ‘go to church’. I am the church. We are the church. A church is not a building with a slanted roof and a cross high atop it. A church is a living breathing spiritual body. We simply meet corporately in a public gathering place, and that place just happens to be our local movie theatre.
Since I’ve been meeting my church there I’ve only actually seen 4 movies there over the course of the entire year that was 2007. So that’s 13 movies in 9 months before I met my church there, and only 4 movies in 12 months since then.
Now that I’ve finally figured it all out and realized that the movie theatre itself is not the church that I go to but simply a cool meeting place for the church that I am a member of I feel that I can comfortably go to the movies again to be entertained, and to also support the movie theatre itself (which appears to be struggling for survival).
There’s a bunch of cool movies out there that I want to see, and that’s what I will start to do again on a more frequent basis. I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon, and then I’ll be there again bright and early this Sunday morning to celebrate my one-year-anniversary with my church. As our Pastor states – we do not go to church or leave from the church because we need to be the church – no matter where we meet and where we go.
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