Thursday 30 December 2010

Church Experience - Expérience "église"


My Church experiences (first service of my life).
This is the experience of a totally "religion ignorant" young lady, so I hope I won't curse...
but probably make you laugh.

Mes expériences d'Églises (première messe de ma vie).
C'est l'expérience d'une totale ignorante en matière de religion, alors j'espère que je vais pas blasphêmer.... peut-être vous faire rire.....

With Mark, I went twice to the New Dimensions Ministries Church.
I still don't understand which denomination of Christianism it is.
Each time I ask, I don't understand the answer.


Avec Mark, je suis allée 2 fois à l'Église New Dimensions Ministries. Je n'ai toujours pas compris de quelle branche du Christianisme il s'agit. À chaque fois que je demande, je ne comprends pas la réponse.

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I hope you will be able to read, but sorry if you don't understand english enough, because I won't translate. Good luck !
J'espère que vous pourrez lire, mais désolée si vous ne comprenez pas assez l'anglais,
parce que je ne vais pas traduire, bonne chance !


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This is huge, around 200 persons I think, the pastors use microphones, 2 big screens on both sides of the scene, for the Karaoke....oops... sorry, for the lyrics of the holy songs. Everybody's well dressed, the singers on the scene have no religious costumes but normal outfits and move and dance while singing. The songs are very lively, everybody dances everywhere. There are prayers, prophetic speeches. I got a special personal one, he saw things for my future, wow.... mmmm what to say "thank you / ok / if you say so / amen ", I just smiled. I got a CD-souvenir of the prophetie, waw...
When you come for the first time, everybody blesses you, pray to welcome you while you are the only one standing up, and they offer a pen of the Church. impressive !
Some women are so transported by Jesus, they tremble, cry, faint, like in  American documentaries..... astounding and a little bit frightening.... There was this song when people waved big red flags and sang something saying "this is war" (against the Devil I guess). I thought religion was about Peace and Love, or that slogan was for something else.



En gros, la messe (le dimanche matin de 8h à 12h ) n'a pas lieu dans une "vraie" église, mais dans une sorte de grand hangar. C'est énorme, environ 200 personnes, les pasteurs utilisent des micros, bien sur, 2 écrans géants de chaque côtés de la scène pour le Karaoké.... euh pardon, pour les paroles des chants saints. Tout le monde est bien habillé, il y a des prières, des déclarations prophétiques, et des chansons super vivantes avec des vrais musiciens, tout le monde danse de partout. Quand tu viens pour la première fois, on te bénit, alors t'es debout tout seul, et tout le monde prie pour toi, et on t'offre un stylo de l'Église.... impressionant mais gentil de leur part !
Pour certaines prières spéciales, certaines femmes sont tellement transportées par la présence de Jesus en elles qu'elles tremble, pleurent, crient, tombent par terre, comme en transe, comme dans les documentaires américains...... stupéfiant de voir ça de ses propres yeux, et un peu effrayant....






Second Church in my Holy journey: Saint Matthias Church, for a Christmas concert, it's a real Church, with a conventional architecture. I don't know which denomination it is. Between the Christmas songs, there were prayers, and everybody knew what to say, when to say "Amen" and so on. To me it was closer to a service than to a Christmas something.
Christmas has never been anything religious for me, just Santa Claus, gifts, family, food, fun. This is a totally different way to celebrate it, here it's actually all about the celebration of a man I don't know anything about ( a guy named Jesus).
L'eglise Saint Matthias, ou a eu lieu le concert, est une vraie eglise, avec une architecture classique, comme vous avez pu voir dans les photos precedentes. Je ne sais pas quelle branche c'est, mais entre les chansons de noel, il y avait de prieres, et tout le monde savait quoi dire, quand dire "Amen" etc, et bien sur les chansons parlaient
de la naissance de Jesus.


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Third stop : James Street Methodist Church. I don't know what "Methodist" means, but it is really more classical than the NDM, it's in a Big Church, with a big organ.
A big choir, singers wearing the same gospel suit, no dancing.
People sing without moving, reading the lyrics in a special book which is given at the entrance. Service from 9am to 11am, less long that the other one but I saw a lot of people yawning...
I was embarrassed to give nothing for the money collection... but... sorry... I came just to please Mark's family.

Et aujourdh'ui c'était cette église. Je ne sais pas ce que "Methodist" veut dire, mais c'est beaucoup plus classique que la New Dimensions Ministries, c'est dans une grande église, avec un grand orgue. Une grande chorale, debout, chaque chanteur porte la même tenue de gospel, mais ne danse pas.
Les gens chantent mais ne bougent pas, ils lisent les paroles dans un livre spécial donné à l'entrée. Messe de 9h à 11h, moins que l'autre église mais j'ai quand même vu pas mal de gens bailler...
J'étais gênée de ne rien donner à la quête.... mais..... désolée..... j'étais juste là pour faire plaisir à la famille de Marc.


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Fourth and last place : The Mormon Church. There was no Pastor. People from the assistance went on the lectern and said things about their week, some testimonies were really touching, all with a nice morale. Everything seemed to be organized by these young boys. At some point of the service they came to us serving small glasses of a transparent liquid. I thought immediately of vodka shots but it couldn't be that. Then we went to separate rooms, to have special teaching by the young boys. My group's topic that day was : the Creation. I said what I knew about the Big Bang, the Evolution Theory... oops... obviously someone lied to me or to them. I had many questions. Too many of their answers sounded confused. I still don't know how that thing/Man/Spirit upstairs created planets, put Adam and Eve, who look like him, on the Earth; and how we are all their kids (Blacks and Whites). I understood that he sent his Son, thru a woman's body to say hello to us, tell us who his Dad was and save us, because we were bad behaving before he shouted, so now we have to thank him forever.


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parce que j'ai écrit "Jesus" une ou 2 fois dans l'article...... C'est bien foutu internet!!!!