Country Music Comes to Church

For those of you who may not know, The Summit meets weekly in a movie theater. Our service begins at 10:15am and usually ends promptly by 11:15am. While we are gathering in theater 6, the Regal employees are arriving to do the preliminaries such as making popcorn and making sure each theater is ready for its first showing around noon. Today I learned that their morning checklist also involves turning on the music in each of their eighteen theaters, including the one in which we have been meeting for the past five weeks. Right in the introduction of my message I heard this music in the background…at first I thought our media guys were messing things up, but since they never make mistakes I quickly realized that the annoying country music now being heard by everyone was coming from the theater house system. I’m not sure if it was Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, or Willie Nelson but their words were now getting more attention than mine. What was I supposed to do? Since I’ve never taken line dancing lessons, putting on boots and a cowboy hat while shuffling to the music were definitely out of the question! Oh well. Life goes on even when crazy stuff happens in your worship service.