Oh my goodness, how could I have forgotten this part of the Jinja trip. It was seriously the best part ever. So we were at a Baptist Church in Jinja last Sunday. The best service ever. So not only was the service amazing. Davis (a guy from our group) was the preacher. Africa is like that, when you come as a guest, you come with the idea that somebody is going to be preaching, that you are going to be up front singing/even leading worship, and you come with a few testimonies to share. So yeah, enough with the background. But we went to both services. The first one was much shorter, kind of like a practice round for the main service, and it was all in English. In between services, we broke up into Bible study groups and talked about a passage. Oh my goodness I loved it. They presented John 15 in a way that I have never ever heard before. And it was really cool. While it was a lot of discussion, that pastor had a direction in mind, and he took us through this chapter by breaking it up into three seasons: fruit, more fruit, and much fruit. If your using the NIV his interpretation doesn’t exactly work because it says much fruit twice instead so their aren’t three different seasons per say, but it was still very interesting. His thing was when you have Christ, you have fruit. Then he went into what is fruit in our lives, which lead us to Galations 5:22-23 (the fruit of the spirit). He said that the first fruit is love. That it must come first. That out of love you can then find the rest of the fruit of the spirit. And you find the rest in the next two seasons of life (referring back to John 15). That through remaining in Christ, his version said abiding in Christ, that then more of God’s fruit will grow and then the third season, remaining in Christ words produces much fruit (even more of the fruit of the spirit). He displayed faith as a progression. A learning process, you except Chirst then you remain in Him and learn from his words. That each step brings you closer to God but then also has outward, physical effects on your actions. I just like all the new interpretations of stories that I’ve heard a million times and they just see them so differently.
But now for the greatest part of the service. The kids had a part in the service. They sang a song and recited a verse. But the song was stinking hilarious. I hope the video of it works because it’s amazing. It doesn’t completely capture the amazingness of the show, but yeah, it was priceless. First off, they were lip syncing the song:
“One thing, I know, Everybody’s got a seed to sow”
And this one kid was like their leader and he stood in the front. And then all of a sudden he just starts busting out his moves in the middle of the song. Michael Jackson moves. And he was seriously standing right in front of the pastor. I was sitting right behind the pastor so it just looked even more hilarious. It looked like he was shimmying in the pastor’s face and just shaking his thing. Oh my goodness, best church service ever. And what just made it more awesome was the kid just kind of looked more reserved when he announced what they would do, and his voice was higher and stuff, and then the lyrics he was sip syncing to had a mature white man voice. And then, the icing on the cake, the kid is busting his moves and all of a sudden one of the church members comes up and sticks money in his pocket! Like a stripper of something. It was hilarious. Then they put a basket out for people to give money as well, I put in a little, they deserved it. I loved it. Best Church Service Ever!
Sorry, videos don't upload here =( I'll show you when I get home.