Crying Stones Church

I hadn't thought about this for a long time, but for some reason it slapped me upside the head yesterday. This is what I wanted to call my church when I was planning to do a plant in seminary. I had a prospectus made up and everything. I sent it around to about a dozen people - even sent one to the director of finance at Willowcreek (who, incidentally, seemed to be the only one that was even remotely excited about it). But most people didn't like the name - some even openly laughed. Maybe it is stupid.

HOW I CAME UP WITH IT
In Luke 19, as Jesus is riding into town on a donkey, people are going wild celebrating. Some of the religious folk tell him to quiet them down. And Jesus says in v. 40, "I tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out." People want Jesus around, and they'll celebrate him whether the church wants them to or not. We cannot be contained or controlled by religious systems.

My thinking was, it would be a church for those who aren't accepted in the church - 'church for the rest of us' so-to-speak. For people wanting to CRY OUT to/for God, but they've been silenced by our current religious institutions. I was also thinking somewhat of the Rolling Stones - a church for rock-n-rollers; for people who didn't fit in elsewhere; for the Keith Richards types. People who recognized their need for God, but needed it in their own way.

I guess it's fairly similar to what some people think of as the 'emerging church' nowadays. And I could explain further, but... I dunno. Kind of lost my verve. It's been a long, strange trip. If I end up sharing the "miracles" I was thinking about yesterday, it may help explain further. I'm getting kinda contemplative now, and it's hard for me to write and think at the same time. Plus I'm not good at painting pictures with words. Later.