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An Outsider's View of Church: Insights from Vacation

July 26, 2015 John 6:1-21 It’s good to be back here at St. Aidan’s after three weeks away!  My family was in Spain and while we didn’t get to an actual church service, we definitely went to our fair share of churches, including three cathedrals. I took the kids to walk around the Cathedral in Seville (apparently, it is the largest Gothic church in the world and the third largest church).   But it felt very museum-y.  We waited in line and paid to get inside to take pictures of Christopher Columbus’ tomb  and walk up the big tower for great views of the city.    I learned later that there was a closed-off section where they were actually having a service while we were there, but that section was walled off from visiting tourists and accessible only from the outside to locals in the know.    We felt more welcomed and more surrounded by God at the old monastery on the outskirts of Seville that had been turned into a contemporary art museum,  where they le