Obersavations in Church

I have to say that I really enjoy going to church. I want to start out by inviting everyone whom may read this. I attend Hope Community Church... right east of town off Sunshine street. If you enjoy the presentations some churches put on with the bands and music you would very much enjoy this church. Sometime when I arrive it just seems as though it is a gathering of people who would know each other as neighbors. They are friendly, but totally involved in one anothers life that they would know the lastest issue you had with the sink knob not shutting off all the way. It sometimes is a blessing to just be around friendly people with everyone having one thing in common, that being most people their are just looking for answers to life and the "right" path to follow. When you walk in to find a seat, you are presented with a hand shake and a smile and help finding the right seat for you. Some prefer to sit in the back, others in the very front where they scream out their joy of praise. It just seems to me that everyone who sits in the fron allways does the most dancing, loudest singing and occaisonally cries out in tears or words of praise. Then as 9 am approaches the stage lights come on with softening colours of blues and purples. The colors they choose really set the mood, it makes the room light up enough to see your fellow members but leaves it dark enough that you feel as though your inner self has not been toatally exposed. The music starts, sometimes it is a soft r&b christian rock... others it is the old chior music that you would think of when someone was to talk about an older southern all black church. That music that the middle aged woman, who no longer is questioning herself and religion, sometimes stands in front and sings her soul out to jesus. The entire room then fills with people singing like song birds, others just saying it while blending it together and some mumbling all the words put up on the screen.