Jon Acuff recently shared a short list of things that only happen in church:
- ask a stranger to scoot to the middle,
- hug people you don’t really know, and
- shout phrases of encouragement when someone says something good.
So What?
As I read his post and skimmed some of the many comments on it, I realized the focus was primarily on worship. While I am not part of a community of faith that practices shouting in worship (words of encouragement or otherwise!), I certainly have seen plenty of forced pew scooting and a lot of handshakes and some hugs exchanged by people who didn’t know one another all that well (and in some cases didn’t know each other at all). I could easily replace singing hymns for shouting encouraging phrases and adopt his list as my own. I wonder, however, what you might add to such a list.