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My 111-Hour Holiday Weekend

Here’s how I spent the first two hours of my long holiday weekend:

  • I spent $3.119 per gallon on regular gas filling up my car at Racetrac. That’s a new all-time record high for me – surpassing the previous record high of $3.099 per gallon set on 4 separate occasions in 2006 and 2007. Luckily I only fill up my car with gas about once every 2½ to 3 weeks. It’s cool to to live and work within 7 miles of each other. Just remember that while gas prices may be at an all-time record high here stateside we are still one of the TOP 10 cheapest countries in the entire world as far as that’s concerned.
  • I saw a movie at the Flagship Cinemas 14 here in Homestead for the first time since last September. I saw “One Missed Call” which falls under the category of ‘horrifying bonechilling thriller’. I wasn’t too scared. I was more confused at the plot than I was scared. There were 3 of us in that theatre. The other two giggled occasionally. I was too confused to even giggle.
  • I went to McDonald’s after the movie to get myself a large hazelnut iced coffee and two apple pies. It’s the first time that I’ve ever gotten one of their iced coffees. It was refreshingly delicious, and I think that I’ll be back for more in the future.
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God Movies

Church At The Box Office

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.