more church

Today is Good Friday, and, as is my usual habit, I attended a church service at noon.  A Good Friday service with a twist.  We were invited to gather, in our cars, in the parking lot on the east side of Macy's.  There was plenty of room in the parking lot and I realized that we were meeting there because neither of our church parking lots is large enough to hold all the cars that came and allow everyone to see the pastors.  Two of our pastors stood out in the cold, windy weather and the service was broadcast on Facebook Live.  Happily, there was a tech person roaming from car to car, at a safe distance, to show several of us how to connect to Facebook Live.  The service was short but very moving and intertwined a lot of what's going on in the world now with the words of Psalm 22.  I was amused to notice that, based on the number of cars, there were several more people attending than at our typical in-church Good Friday service.  And thinking of numbers, our live stream Sunday services are attracting twice as many attendees ans our traditional Sunday services.  I mentioned this to my west-coast brother and he suggested that it was due to the "There are no athiests in foxholes." idea.  That may be but I also suspect it has something to do with being able to attend church in your pajamas with a cup of coffee in hand.