St. Lydia’s Church has no pews, no altar, no vestments, no band or choir, and little formality of any kind. Instead, church means drums and chanting, with frequent references to Jesus; breaking bread and drinking communion grape juice; and a long, three-hour homemade vegetarian dinner punctuated by Bible readings, a sermon and frequent talk of what it means to be a young spiritual seeker in Brooklyn. The pastor is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but the members themselves range from atheist and agnostic to evangelical, Catholic and Episcopalian.
Believe me when I tell you that if all those people feel comfortable in your Church, then you are NOT preaching the TRUTH!!  Demonic spirits cannot remain where the TRUTH of God is Preached and the Praises of GOD are sung in a spirit of  honor and worship.

“Growing up, I was really sure in my faith in God and in going to Episcopal church — I loved the liturgy — but my sense was that I would never invite a friend of mine to this kind of worship service because it felt like there were so many barriers everywhere, from the look to the feel to the sounds of the place,” says Emily Scott, 34, who founded St. Lydia’s dinner church five years ago at a friend’s apartment (it more recently settled into its new home in Gowanus). “We try to practice the most basic form of Christianity: bread, wine — grape juice in our case — water, a meal, singing and a community relationship and connection. I preach, but so does everyone else. We learn from each other.”
First of all Organized religion is all dead.  There is no organized religion that teaches or preaches the the truth.  She says she loved the liturgy… so she is a traditionalist who enjoys religion.  The new worship center she describes is a free for all, a party.  It is all about making people feel good.  But, Church is about a place where humans can meet with GOD and get renewed by the Spirit and in their spirit.  Where they can receive revelation, guidance, comfort from HIM.  Though her new church breaks bread and has communion, I doubt very highly any of them truly understands what was purchased by the blood Jesus shed.

As fewer Americans identify with traditional religion and more people check the “none of the above” box when asked about their faith, a host of creative, nontraditional spiritual spaces are popping up across the country. They include religious communities that worship and mingle in bowling alleys and cocktail bars, or multi-faith worship centers that intentionally group Muslims, Jews and Christians together. Houses of worship are rebranding, too, hiring architects to design new campuses to appeal to the future faithful.
Wow, it was interesting the grouping of the MultiFaith center with the bowling alleys and cocktail bars… that is where they belong.  That is what they are meeting places where the unsaved can commune and feel the spirit…There are many spirits you know.  That is why God said to try the spirits:

1 John 4:1   “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

You can experience a sense of peace in a Buddhist temple or sailing on a sailboat, or standing on the top of a mountain.  But, that does not mean it comes from the HOLY SPIRIT of God.  Even when you are in a Church, spirits can be affecting you, if you are not washed in the Blood and filled with the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is a gift that was only provided by the sacrifice Jesus made at the Cross.  The Holy Spirit is our guide, our comforter, he leads us to all truth, and HE ENABLES US TO STAND against all the works of the enemy.  Without Him, we cannot even discern the spirits that are affecting us.    Would you learn that at your Multi Faith Center –  Certainly NOT!  

Traditional churches still dominate the American landscape, but what religious space looks like is undergoing a subtle, gradual shift, with some of the most celebrated new religious communities arising in cities and college towns. The church steeple in the American town square hasn’t gone, but it’s got some company.
Don’t you know that the Devil HATES Church?  Do you see that rebellious uprisings and Pagan governments burn down churches? Don’t you know that the DEVIL does not mind you communing together as long as you do not PREACH THE TRUTH??  Don’t you see that you are being DECEIVED??

“The declining participation of young people in formal religion has put pressure on religious leaders to try new things,” said Duke University sociologist Mark Chaves, author of the National Congregations Study, which in its latest 2012 survey found that 9.3 percent of American congregations met in a building other than a church, mosque, synagogue or school — a 1.5 percent increase over 14 years. “There has always been innovation happening in American religion, of course, and that continues today.”
Most all innovations in America have brought us down.  Progress as seen by the world, has proven to be destructive. 

Here are a few of the ways the future of faith is playing out in religious spaces.

The Coffee Shop Church

Growing up as the son of a pastor (most pastor’s kids are hellions.) in the Christian Missionary Alliance, Joshua Grimes traveled frequently as a child, moving with his parents between New York and Pennsylvania as they followed his father’s assignments, and dutifully spent his Sundays in the pews.

“I always wanted to start a coffee shop,” said Grimes. “Before I felt God wanted me to be a pastor, I had always viewed coffee and ministry as two separate things. If I was going to go into church life, I had to give up all my secular occupations.”

The two, it turned out, were not incompatible.

For six years, Grimes, 31, has run The Common Place Church, which operates like any other coffee shop on the weekdays, when it goes by Avenue 209 Coffee House, but on the weekends becomes a popular church.

“A lot of churches are now trying to retrofit their churches with coffee shops, to make them more friendly on Sunday. Our vision was to reverse that and have a church that meets in a coffee shop,” he explained.

Around 120 people show up each Sunday, split over three services, and worship in a 700-square-foot seating and stage area next to the coffee bar. Most are college students who go to Lock Haven University (we have already seen that college students have been indoctrinated to the MultiFaith agenda) . On the weekdays, the stage is reserved for local musicians. Worship has music, too, but it’s always to the tune of a guitar and drums.
So his congregants come into a secular coffee shop to worship before a secular stage upon which only God know what kind of music and what kind of spells are performed. 

“My theology is that the church is the people, not a specific place,” Grimes said. “If the building is the obstacle, let’s remove the building and have church in a coffee shop. If you want to have a latte, you can have a latte each day and stay for church on Sunday.”
Who cares about HIS theology?  What does GOD say..that is all that should matter.  Are you come to worship God or Joshua Grimes?  The building is not the problem, though most churches are unnecessarily ornate and costly to maintain, the SPIRIT is the problem.  We Americans forget what it is like to come before a King.  We have never had one, or anyone else we had to bow before.  God should be reverenced and respected, honored and approached with care and decorum.  

John 4:23-24  the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Multi-Faith Spaces

“To many people, what I’m doing is blasphemy. But to others, it’s a wonderful celebration of religious harmony,” said singer-songwriter Craig Taubman. In 2013 Taubman bought the historic former Welsh Presbyterian Church building near downtown Los Angeles (also the original location of Los Angeles’ Sinai Temple) with plans to convert it into multicultural, multi-faith arts and worship center.

The Pico Union Project, as it’s now called, regularly hosts Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities for worship, with many of the groups meeting weekly. Among the groups that use the space are Kwang Yum and AE Yang — two Korean-American Christian worship communities — as well as Words of Encouragement, a largely black church. At least once a month, the nearly 400-person capacity space hosts events like the Triple D Havdallah Jam, a musical and spoken-word gathering to mark the end of the Jewish sabbath. Earlier this year, the Pico Union Project was the site of the first meeting of the Women’s Mosque of America.

Between religious events, the space — it has two floors, including a main floor with removable pews — has been the site of a Kirtan concert, the one-man play “Wrestling Jerusalem” and weekly open houses.

“Churches and synagogues across America are struggling because of diminishing congregations. Economically, it’s hard to keep the buildings open. If Jews pray primarily on a Friday evening or Saturday morning, and Christians pray on Sundays, then why not share the economic burden between the groups?” asked Taubman, 56, who worked in children’s music in the 1990s for Disney and more recently released a series of albums of Jewish spiritual music.

“I’m tired of the dialogue. I’m trying to create an actual practice,” he said of what happens in the space. “The only way to love your neighbor is to know your neighbor.”

Using proximity to build relationships is also behind the Tri-Faith Initiative in Omaha, Nebraska. The 35-acre campus, currently under construction, will feature a reform synagogue, an Islamic community center and mosque, and a United Church of Christ church all within a short walk of one another.
35 acre campus… You know MEGA CHURCHES have contributed immensely to the downfall of the church.  Not only because they encourage the party atmostphere, but because they offered so much that had nothing to do with GOD but attracted young people looking for community and fellowship, thus pulling people from the smaller neighborhood churches. SO churches came to think they needed to be huge and have large buildings and out buildings and tons of parking, all of which cast MONEY.  

A Community With No Permanent Home

As the 28-year-old assistant rabbi at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, New Jersey, Joshua Stanton says he’s gotten used to seeing a pattern among young Jews: They grow up involved in the temple, go to college, come back to their hometowns, and tend to be much less involved in the religious community than they were when they were young.

He doesn’t think they’re less attracted to the faith, it’s rather that their needs have changed.

“There are a lot of people who are comfortable in synagogues, but there are many others who need to go to a place that is more familiar to them. If that’s a bar or hotel, so be it,” said Stanton.

Recently, he and Rabbi Ben Spratt of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York’s Upper West Side started The Tribe, a monthly worship and social gathering of young Jewish professionals who live and work in the city.

Since September, they’ve hosted Shabbat services on Fridays, as well as Havdalah on Saturdays, in spaces ranging from bar basements to hotels and art galleries. In addition to drinks and music, the events also feature moments of silence, niggunim (Jewish ritual songs), kiddush cups, challah and shabbat candles. Participants lead the night’s festivities as often as the rabbis.

Niggunim of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. dveikus nigunim, usually without words, express individual Jewish meditation, soul searching and inward ecstasy in prayer. First generation of Chabad. Niggun of Four Stanzas. This melody is considered very holy and only sung on special occasions, including 19 Kislev and wedding ceremonies.  Chabad is not even considered Jewish by most Jews.  There is some question as to the spiritual aspects of this group as well as their moral conduct. So you can hardly call this a Jewish Ritual.

“Sacred spaces are made by people who are gathered together for a meaningful experience,” Stanton said. “Our goal is to connect with people, not to recruit for our synagogues. It’s important simply to get people together — that’s the basis of the future of the Jewish world.”

First of all, I don’t believe for a second that is the basis for the future of the Jewish world.  I am certain that the Jews behind this initiative/movement/Project are NEVER letting go of traditional Rabbinic Talmudic Kabbalistic Religion or their hope of Jews ruling the world while the rest of us kiss their feet and serve them.  
I am sad that young people no longer know how to enter into worship.  TRUE WORSHIP, to come into the PRESENCE OF GOD.  
I converted to Judaism at one point in my life and lived as a Jew for seven years.  During that time I felt so blessed to be in Synagogue.  To participate in EXACTLY what Jesus did when He was on the earth.  It was wonderful to experience the Reading of the Torah, the reverence the presence.  Naturally, there are things that have become part of Jewish life that are not from GOD.  I missed JESUS…though at that time I did not really fully understand who HE was and really all that He did for us.  I got born again and filled with the Holy Spirit.  
Anyway, my point is, that much has been lost from our spiritual life.  We need to get it back, not move further away.

Redesigning The Traditional Worship Space

Even in the more prevalent evangelical Christian practices, where single-denomination, permanent houses of worship with pews and altars or stages are the norm, many congregations and mega-churches are innovating. Over the last 11 years, Southern California-based Visioneering Studios has designed dozens of church spaces to create mixed-use sites where shopping, community development, entertainment and worship happen within steps of each other.

“Our original intent was to be the anti-church, punk-rock architects,” said Mel McGowan, founder and president of Visioneering Studios, which has offices in Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte, Nashville and Orange County. “We get back to the root of the world ‘ecclesia’ as the center of the community. The idea of Jesus saying that you, the people, are the temple.”
Oh my, NO!  We are not to be part of the WORLD, we are to be SEPARATE.  To separate the precious from the vile.  The clean from the unclean.  We are not looking to move in with the masses we are looking to bring the individuals out of the world and into GOD’s light.

Outside Washington, D.C., in Chantilly, Virginia, that meant converting a former Anheuser-Busch distribution center, dubbed the “Bud building,” into nZone, a 83,000-square foot sports complex that has three indoor soccer fields, two multi-use wooden courts, a gym and a “keg room” (a multifunction room where kegs used to be stored). New Life Christian Church has no permanent worship space, but the keg room is used for preschool worship, and hundreds of members gather on Sundays over three worship services on the sports center’s campus.
Seriously??? Sports is a pagan activity to worship pagan gods, so is drinking especially beer!   And gymnasiums also to worship gods.  These practices are ongoing in the same structure??  And they think God will receive their worship there??

In Austin, Texas, McGowan’s team designed “The For the City Center,” a former nursing home that’s been converted into a multi-use building in the city’s downtrodden St. John’s neighborhood. Local nonprofits have offices in the center, which is also used as a weekly meeting space for the Austin Stone Community Church
I live in Texas and I will tell you that Austin in the most ungodly town I know.  Everytime I have to go there, I feel like I have set foot on another planet.  College Town, space cadets!

In Denver, at the Stapleton International Airport, which was decommissioned to serve as the site of a new planned community, Visioneering designed a church in a former airport hangar.

“Even though we are asked to design and build walls, we are literally trying to blow up the walls,” said McGowan, who authored Design Intervention: Revolutionizing Sacred Space. “The theology of place is bigger than simply creating sacred space. In fact, the architect and author of the world that created all space intends all of it be to sacred.”
When He returns, maybe.  But, right now.  It ain’t the reality.  EVIL is rampant.  We are to be separated.  We are to be the light in the darkness,  The truth in the world that loves the lie.  We will be hated and persecuted for HIS NAMES SAKE.  To think that you can make all the world sacred with a program, is ridiculous.   If you think you can bring all people together with man’s plans is ludicrous.

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The following is representative of what has been happening on our College/University campuses for many years now.  At least since 2012 at this facility: