I've been waiting a couple months for them to post it, and they finally did. Here is an excerpt from a sermon at the church we are going to.

"Finally, a learned discipline of patience strengthens our faith. A healthy and mature faith is evident upon understanding and accepting when we are recipients of God’s presence and when we are instruments. It is not so much an issue of being one or the other, but rather the awareness that God’s desires of us to be both. That is why corporate worship is so important. We are visually reminded every time we worship together that each of us experiences the presence of the Lord vertically in a one to one relationship with God, as well as a horizontally in our relationship with one another. It is the intersection of the vertical with the horizontal that forms the cross of Jesus. With out the awareness that we are both recipients, as well as instruments of the Lord, then a learned discipline of patience makes little or no difference in our spiritual lives. What was the most evident experience in your life that tested your patience? Amen."

Unfortunately one might be hard-pressed to find that kind of language at most churches today.
I would only add that while we experience His presence individually we can only corperately worship Him as a united body. Kind of hard to do that if you can't hear your neighbor singing because even the drums are micked and amplified. Just my two cents.

The Jesus Who Never Lived

For those of you who don't know, I have been working for a professor as a research assistant since November.
Among other projects I have been helping with is an upcoming book about Jesus called The Jesus Who Never Lived. It's about false Jesus's through the centuries, and the actual Jesus of the Bible.
I found it on Amazon of all places:
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Who-Never-Lived-Exposing/dp/0736923217/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203097252&sr=8-1

I think it will be a very helpful book, debunking a lot of misconceptions about Jesus.