Seattle is known as liberal, and churchless… godless. The Stranger, a liberal tabloid, decided to find out what goes on behind the doors of the churches that are in town. In June, 2007, The Stranger…

… sent 30 writers into 30 houses of worship to find out. We packed a month’s worth of worship into a single day so that we could report back to you, our readers, about just what the Seventh-day Adventists, the Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Catholics, and the Jesus freaks at Mars Hill are up to. We also snuck into a mosque, a synagogue, and Sea-Tac’s meditation room. We took a look inside their sanctuaries, we took in their sermons, we took Communion, and we took notes.

A Month of Sundays, the subsequent article, provides interesting insight to how the unchurched see church.

Warning: If you are offended when articles include cuss words, don’t go to the article. They aren’t afraid to use them. But, after all, that’s the world they live in, isn’t it.

Some of the reporters managed to move beyond their personal feelings toward religion to offer insights to their own hearts. One writer offered the following introduction to her report:

I slept badly the night before church: I was scared because I had never been before, and everything I know about Sunday services comes from David Lodge novels and Garth Ennis’s Preacher series. “Are they gonna make me confess my sins?” I asked my boyfriend. He promised me they would not. “Can I eat beforehand? Can I get up to pee?” I was sure I would stick out.

The challenge that presents itself to the Body of Christ… How can we effectively reach people who think like this? How can we break through with the truth that Jesus has the answer to their every need?

Read the full article here.