Sunday I worshiped with part of our group at Westminster Chapel. We were given several choices and I chose to go to Westminster because Ed Stetzer was speaking. I was pleasantly surprised with the service.
I had expected a high church service with an older congregation. Instead we were greeted by people at the door and when we entered the chapel there was a praise band getting ready for the service. The leader was at a keyboard wearing short along with a couple of guitars and singers. They used a combination of hymns with updated accompaniment and choruses. The choruses were not new but they seemed to be fresh and nothing was done as a matter of habit.
Stetzer did a great job even though he preached a little shorter than the pastor usually does. From what I can surmise, the pastors here must preach for an hour as a matter of course. I don’t have a problem with that as long as he has something to say for that long, and from what I heard from some others in the group, they had hour long sermons but he may have had 15 minutes worth of materials.