Yesterday I sent out a few texts confirming what the people gathered agreed to last Sunday: We won't be gathering this coming Sunday or the next.
The next two Sundays are, according to the liturgical calendar, Palm Sunday and Easter.
From time to time, it's difficult for me to appreciate what we, in our bedraggled community of gatherings, are and what we are becoming. That is why I journal our comings and goings.
We are not people who believe in the church calendar. Here, every first day of the week reminds us that He is risen.
When we made the decision not to gather those two Sundays, I didn't give the decision much thought. Eventually, it struck me that what we are doing is noteworthy. At this point, we don't even meet the qualifications to be C & E Christians.
The truth is that, on Palm Sunday, Evie and I will be going to an actual Christendom church's Sunday show. A member of our Wednesday group is being baptized there that day. We will celebrate her act of obedience that day.
On Easter, we are not doing anything churchy at all. We're just going to the home to eat dinner with mom and dad. Who knows how many chances we will have to do that?
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