The issue surfaced as a result of the worship teams demand for low lighting and candles during the celebration. "We didn't feel like the issue of lighting should be a congregational decision to begin with and who can deny the tangible benefits to the expression of worship through the use of low lighting and candles",said Scott McBrayer the worship leader at Campus Church. The firm position of the worship team quickly gave rise to a dispute that had been a long time awaiting.
As the pastor of Campus Church I have made a priority of making every reference to scripture available on the projector for everyone to see. I did this for two reasons. First, due to the low lighting in the room, I did not want to put anyone's eyesight in danger by attempting to read their Bibles from their seats. Secondly, I wanted to accommodate folks who might not have a Bible with them. To my chagrin there has been an alarmingly high number of participants who are continuing to read their Bibles from their seats. I fear that this must be persisting due to a lack of translational agreement I'm the church. The translation being used from the projector is the English Standard Version.
I couldn't bear the thought of either over riding the stand of the worship team or continuing to see the translational dissenters suffer eye loss due to their lack of confidence in the ESV. There had to be a solution.
Campus Church's Committee On Committees voted and decided to create a committee in order to stifle any opportunity of division or fighting to take hold of the church. The committee was titled The Low Lighting Task Force Committee and is made up primarily of medical, military, and worship professionals. After a lot of thoughtful deliberation in a ten minute discussion the task force came to a resolution.
We will be taking proceeds from the Campus Church offering account and purchasing a number of L.E.D. enabled baseball caps. This is the perfect solution...well, we thought it was, until another chorus of ill effected consciences sounded an alarm because there are men wearing hats inside the church not only on Sunday, but also during worship. The Committee On Committees will be convening soon in order to address two issues. First, they as a committee must reprimand The Low Lighting Task Force Committee for thinking that a ten minute meeting could accomplish anything in a church. Secondly, we now need to create another committee to resolve the age old question of whether men should or should not wear hats as a matter of conscience or truth.
Kenny Deason
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