Church in a Museum
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:04 am
I had this strange dream the other night that I just can't shake...
In the dream my wife and I were looking for a new church to attend. (IRL we have been doing this for the last year since moving to SA) We were visiting this church that was meeting in a conference room or auditorium of a museum. I have had past dreams over the years of the exploring the museum, which contained 2-3 levels and was set into a hillside, a very nice building. The exhibits in the museum contained mostly american history items or natural history items. In this particular dream which is new, we entered through the lobby and went downstairs toward the conference rooms or auditorium where the church was meeting at. When we got into the conference room, it was nicely decorated with golden colored curtains on the walls and there were quite a few people in the church. We took our seats and waited for the service to begin. After the service started, some time passed in the dream, and then when it was time for the pastor to get up and speak. The pastor was an older white haired gentleman who was seated only a few seats over from us. The pastor kind of reminded me of a Bob Jones or a Bobby Conner type of individual, but he was very informally dressed in what looked like grey PJs or a grey shirt with no sleeves in the dream and he just stood up and started teaching from his seat instead of teaching in the front of the auditorium. I don't remember what he taught on, but I seemed to remember that it was a pretty good message. The next part of the service was an open type of communion, where there were tables set up around the auditorium with the communion elements on them and you had to get up and go to the tables to take communion. The strange part of the dream that I can't seem to shake is that when I got to the communion table, there was no wine or grape juice there, but instead there was the jar of powdered kool-aid type of drink with a little scoop, small cups, water, and small pieces of bread. I think the idea was that we were to put a scoop of the powder into the cup, add water, and then use that for the communion with the bread. This really bothered me for some reason and I started having real problems trying to mix a cup. I tried several times unsuccessfully to mix the communion cup and I could not get it mixed right at all. The dream ended with my wife looking at me asking me where the communion elements were and I was still anxious trying to get something made.
Any ideas? The only idea I have so far is that it is not a real church and there is no power in the church as there is no communion blood for the forgiveness of sins as it is something that is being made from the fake powder. Thanks for any inputs.
in Christ,
In the dream my wife and I were looking for a new church to attend. (IRL we have been doing this for the last year since moving to SA) We were visiting this church that was meeting in a conference room or auditorium of a museum. I have had past dreams over the years of the exploring the museum, which contained 2-3 levels and was set into a hillside, a very nice building. The exhibits in the museum contained mostly american history items or natural history items. In this particular dream which is new, we entered through the lobby and went downstairs toward the conference rooms or auditorium where the church was meeting at. When we got into the conference room, it was nicely decorated with golden colored curtains on the walls and there were quite a few people in the church. We took our seats and waited for the service to begin. After the service started, some time passed in the dream, and then when it was time for the pastor to get up and speak. The pastor was an older white haired gentleman who was seated only a few seats over from us. The pastor kind of reminded me of a Bob Jones or a Bobby Conner type of individual, but he was very informally dressed in what looked like grey PJs or a grey shirt with no sleeves in the dream and he just stood up and started teaching from his seat instead of teaching in the front of the auditorium. I don't remember what he taught on, but I seemed to remember that it was a pretty good message. The next part of the service was an open type of communion, where there were tables set up around the auditorium with the communion elements on them and you had to get up and go to the tables to take communion. The strange part of the dream that I can't seem to shake is that when I got to the communion table, there was no wine or grape juice there, but instead there was the jar of powdered kool-aid type of drink with a little scoop, small cups, water, and small pieces of bread. I think the idea was that we were to put a scoop of the powder into the cup, add water, and then use that for the communion with the bread. This really bothered me for some reason and I started having real problems trying to mix a cup. I tried several times unsuccessfully to mix the communion cup and I could not get it mixed right at all. The dream ended with my wife looking at me asking me where the communion elements were and I was still anxious trying to get something made.
Any ideas? The only idea I have so far is that it is not a real church and there is no power in the church as there is no communion blood for the forgiveness of sins as it is something that is being made from the fake powder. Thanks for any inputs.
in Christ,