Wow be patient. I didn't get back into Flagstaff until after midnight last night...attempted to go to the state fair yesterday, but ended up just going to church.

Have you ever seen a sticker or symbol on a vehicle and wondered it's meaning? I have, actually recently. Driving around in Flagstaff, you often find yourself staring at the back of numerous gas guzzling machines, finding some type of emotion when reading those stickers. There was one this week at puzzled me quite a bit. I was three representational figures, two being identical...one of this things is not like the other...So I decide that it's probably for yoga or some hippie thing, and ignored it...until yesterday.

I went down to Phoenix with Jason, which last week we both said that if we go down we'll have to go to church, no excuses. Mostly cause we were gonna hang out with his buddy, Jeremy, and go to his church. So I rush to get ready for church Sunday, cause the clocks in the houses are all wrong, and I had my cell phone off. We finally leave, and as we go, Jason is explaining that half of Phoenix goes to this church...Great it's a Mega Church. No intimacy and highly impersonal. But as we are about to turn in to the parking lot, I notice those three little figures on the sign...Christ's Church of the Valley. "That's what they mean, those stupid little people."

We walk on to the campus, it's huge! Almost didn't find the worship building, and didn't find his buddy Jeremy. So we go find a seat, and as we walk into the worship hall we are handed bulletins, just like at any other church I've been to, but this one struck me as odd...Yes this is the so called bulletin for there regular service, which, not only stated inside this document, but above every door as you enter...All services are rated PG-13. So we go sit down, and notice that the stage is set up as if some big name performer was coming out to sing praise songs. We sit there, trying our best to give it a chance, and find out that his buddy is in a different service, the Alternative Service.

It starts, and the first thing that pops into my head is, State Youth Conference, and watching the Supertones preform. So we stand there, both not singing, and trying hard to understand what's going on. So, the Pastor starts making the announcements: Operation Christmas Child, Missionaries coming to talk about their experiences, the Alternative Service going over Revelation, and the of course their study on Perfect Sex. As he's talking, the offertory is being done, which I get an offering bag thing shoved in my face by one of the members. But Jeremy comes and saves the day. We go to the other service, which they are discussing Samson, since their study is on Heroes of the Bible.
He actually showed a clip from the TV series, which at that moment, I forgot I was at Church. It was odd, some of the things he said I disagreed on, but it's wasn't too bad. Would I got back? No, and Jason said the same. "It's too big," as we try to escape the congested parking lot. "we need to find a place in Flag that's not crazy like this."

So I went, got scared, but survived...