Do the Pew Shuffle

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Jay F Guin

A South Carolina church plant bought a traditional building — resulting in pew-sitting culture shock. And so they came up with this video to explain. But it’s old hat to us old-time church goers.

Who’d’a’thunk churches would one day reach people so unchurched they don’t know how to navigate tightly packed pews?

(JMF: “Who’d’a’thunk” is redneck for “Who would have thought.” Let me know if “old hat” requires idiomatic interpretation.)

About Jay F Guin

My name is Jay Guin, and I’m a retired elder. I wrote The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace about 18 years ago. I’ve spoken at the Pepperdine, Lipscomb, ACU, Harding, and Tulsa lectureships and at ElderLink. My wife’s name is Denise, and I have four sons, Chris, Jonathan, Tyler, and Philip. I have two grandchildren. And I practice law.
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6 Responses to Do the Pew Shuffle

  1. Patricia Harrod-Wyro says:
    January 11, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    This is really cool!

  2. Cary says:
    January 12, 2011 at 8:41 am

    Baahahahahaaa!

  3. X-Ray says:
    January 12, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    You posted this just because one of the guys was wearing an Alabama cap. 😉

    Now excuse me while I grab my hym-in-al…

  4. JMF says:
    January 13, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    I am vacationing in Destin, so allow me a Southern story:

    I was waiting to pay at a restaurant in Alabama (okay, it really wasn't Alabama. this was Oklahoma), and an older guy was ahead of me. Certainly retired and bored, I could tell he was in no hurry to conclude his transaction.

    As he chatted with the waitress that was pulling his tab, she made some sort of mistake.

    She said, "Oh, I'm sorry."

    He responded, "Well hello, Sorry, my name is Dale!!!"

  5. JD says:
    February 15, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    "whoda thunk" this video would be taken out of context so many times on so many christian blogs?

  6. brittany says:
    April 15, 2011 at 2:04 pm

    I am a member of the church that created the video you wrote about. Every year the leaders of our church create a song and video for the volunteers that help midtown run for each service. We don’t own the church that video was shot in, we use this church as well as space in the state museum (as we hold three services at two locations to house everyone). I’m glad you enjoyed the video… We have a new one that was just released for this years volunteer appreciation night. Check out the video and midtown’s site. It’s a great place.

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