House of Mercy

This review comes as part of my year-​long adventure exploring different churches.
I never thought I would put the words «church» and «fun» in the same sentence. Until this evening, when I ran in the house and told Joe (that’s my boyfriend) «Oh my god! That church was so fun!» Because the church service that I went to tonight was pretty much the best possible experience I could have imagined having.
House of Mercy is a church within a church. They rent space from a Lutheran Church, and they hold their services at 5:00pm on Sunday evenings. I found them while searching for church options on Google. I was captivated by their awesomely-​designed website, which spoke of Flannery O’Connor, Thai food and Johnny Cash. All things I like. Figured I would check it out.
So I drove my little car over to St. Paul, and got myself a seat in the cute church, which smelled heavenly (ha.) There was a fiddle, guitar and drums playing old school gospel music. The crowd very interesting, not very racially diverse, but a wide variety of ages and styles. I felt very comfortable.
I would give the sermon an A+. I actually learned something about Jesus and the Gospel of Luke and I could even explain it to someone now. And the pastor was funny and said that Jesus «pissed off» a lot of people, which made me giggle.
Music= ⁵⁄₅ (Their hymnal is dedicated to Johnny and June Carter Cash!)
Sermon=5/5
Environment=4/5 (No one said hello, but people were the standard Minnesota Nice.)
P. S. They have a parade and sing a song as the «youngsters» leave for the nursery. Awesome.