I woke up this morning thinking about church stuff. In my dream, I publicly went off on someone after a service.

Each quarter I take a day to just be part of our congregation. I sit and worship with our church, learn with our people and seek God alongside of them. In my dream it was one of these Sunday’s.

As I slept, my mind worked through an imagined experience. The first service went great but was five minutes over (the Swiss could typically set their clocks by our service times). In the second service the team went five minutes over again but this time was just beginning a seven minute drama. I knew there was a wrap up and communion to follow. The service had fallen apart and they were going to be at least 25 minutes over.

Out of nowhere one leadership team member of our church stood up and said, “This is ridicules”, and turned to walk out - everyone began to applaud and they all stood to leave.

I stood and walked out as well. In the hall, I blasted the person, yelling, “THAT WAS INAPROPRATE”!

Ok, so now I am awake and am processing. A few quick observations and self-evaluations items:

  • I don’t yell at people…I am of Norwegian decent, that kind of outward display of emotion would never do.
  • I do want the services to be well crafted experiences.
  • I give away control of services with reluctant fearful and hopeful expectation.
  • I may have a leaden fear of an Elder led revolt of a staff led initiative (not that, that ever happens in churches).

So the dream reveled a number of things to me (and more things about me to the sociological community, I am sure).

For team members who may read this and wonder what would likely happen if the dream was a moment of charismatic prophetic revelation...here’s my best guess: as the clock ticked to 12:05 PM, I imagine myself walking to the sound booth to mic up. I envision walking on the stage and saying, “There are three times to end a service, when the preacher’s done, the audience is done or the time is done. We have achieved today at least two of the three.” The Worship Leadership Arts Team would be having a debrief meeting about the days events (I am sure of that).

Best of luck on the 25th as I sit back and enjoy worshiping at The Journey North. I’ll be praying for you all. :)