“In the beginning was the Word…”
This is the thesaurus.
On the fourth Sunday of every month, we have an “Alternative Worship” service here at All Saints'. It begins promptly at 5:03 p.m.
Alternative Worship.
Boy, if there ever was an overused cliché, that's gotta be it. You can't swing a cat without hitting an Alternative Worship service in the Episcopal Church these days.
But not us. We're different. At least, we're trying to be. And we would be thrilled if you would join us for our 5:03 p.m. Alternative Worship service and tell us if we've got it right yet. There are no kneelers. There's not a prayerbook in sight. No cassocks, surplices, albs or chasubles allowed at this particular event. Nope, nope, nope. None of that.
We DO have a priest, of course, but mostly because he can bend guitar strings just like John Lee Hooker, so he's usually playing with the band.
What you WILL find is Christian fellowship, and an earnest attempt by some of His most unprofitable servants to find new and meaningful ways to share the good news of Jesus Christ.
Don't misunderstand: we LIKE the Prayer Book. (Well, most of us do.) But we also believe that here, at the beginning of a new millenium, we have a responsibility to proclaim the Word in new ways that will be meaningful to people who think of church as just some old guy in a gown droning on and on in a pulpit. That's not what His love for us is about, and we desperately want to share that information with a world grown jaded and cold.
And besides, the Prayer Book itself was something radical and new in 1549, so we have precedent on our side. We think Thomas Cranmer would approve.
