It is not new to say that shopping malls are, for many, the church of today. I went to IKEA in the week and really enjoyed it. What is so special? What can that tell us about what church should be like today.
At IKEA you are taken on a journey that you didn’t necessarily choose and shown ways that the items on show can be accessible to you. You can take them home and make them your own and I find the experience inspiring in terms of developing my own home.
Is there something there for us who are attempting to make church relevant and contemporary. We need to take people on a journey that maybe they would not have undertaken and provide ways for them to develop that are accessible and can be taken away and used in everyday life. Do our Community Sermons make a start on that? Do we need to go further and learn a lesson from IKEA?
Being more thoughtful, accessible, available, ready to use, child friendly..........
1 comment:
Read this with a wry smile on my face as I have found the whole 'IKEA experience' quite stressful in the past. But maybe there's something there about being taken out of one's comfort zone!
Post a Comment