The PoMo Church . . . and some Pictures!
I really enjoy visiting different churches. It gives me a chance to see how other people worship. So Saturday night, it was like 11pm and I was like, oh yeah, I need to find a church to go to tomorrow. I fire up Google to find some churches in the area. The first hit was a gay community church. Yup, I’m in San Fran. So I peruse the results some more and find a church in my area. I find Mission Bay Community Church. It looks pretty good, of the Presbyterian Denomination (what our Pastors of CFC are). So I walked to the church this morning, about 2 miles away. I walk in and it looks like a Post Modern (PoMo) Church. It’s setup sorta like TCBC, like the seats in a semi circle with the “Pulpit” in the center. The first row consists of 3 sofas and 1 pew. Behind that are coffee tables with tea lights and TNIV/The Message Bible on them and a 2-4 chairs seated at each table. I guess PoMo churches don’t expect people to bring a Bible to church much like the other PoMo church I’ve been too. There weren’t that many people there, maybe 20. I knew the songs we sung. The one thing I was excited was how their website hyped up how they are “an unapologetically Christian Church centered on a belief in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.” The message wasn’t expository preaching and I could tell it was more post-modern on how he talked about the different ways people connect to God and their approach to evangelism. I still don’t know about the PoMo Church, the whole “What’s good for you is good for you, what’s good for me is good for me.” It reminded me of what Pastor Min said during Servants Retreat. “CFC will continue to change. We will change the way we relate to people but we will not compromise the Message.” If I come back for another weekend, I’d check out this church again. On a side note, why is it that PoMo churches have nice websites? I did a search on churches in Champaign Urbana Illinois, CFC is on page 9 for Google. Even Kenny Kim’s website is higher than ours. Gotta put that on our list of things to fix.
Now for pictures!
Day 4 – Downtown San Francisco
Golden Gate University, would you like to go here?
Downtown Flames Burgers – supposed their burgers are good but they were closed at 6:30pm.
Bistro Burgers – another good burger place that was also closed. The two burger joints I wanted to go to were closed so I ended up going to Jack-in-the-Box.
Pier 1 Ferry Building as seen from Embarcadero.
Ferry Building from the port side.
Bay Bridge
AT&T Park, Home of the SF Giants. I wanted to see a game here but I didn’t check the schedule so Sunday’s game ended up being a day game which I missed b/c of church.
Day 5
Alcatraz
These houses add a very home feel to SF. You don’t get the big intimdating of NYC. They remind me of Full House
Farmers Market – fresh organic fruits. The first thing I thought about was the strawberries I bought that Andy devoured.
The Exploratorium – it’s like a smaller Liberty Science Center. Very hands on, if I were younger (or just didn’t study all this stuff in college) I would have appreciated it even more.
Pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco from the Bridge
I went to this small restraunt Pacific Catch to finally eat some seafood. I got an Ahi-Tuna Wasabi Bowl with an extra piece of grilled Salmon. It was really good. The fish wasn’t over cooked and blended excellently with the sushi ingredients turned into a bowl.
I walked about 15 miles on Saturday almost from Fisherman’s Wharf across the Golden Gate Bridge and back. Too bad it was cloudy that day.