Church Takes Offering While Worship Band Plays ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’
Clay Church in a United Methodist Church in South Bend, Indiana. Led by Pastor Brian Durand, each Sunday they offer a Traditional Service, which features hymns sung by the choir and accompanied by a church organ and some spoken responses, as well as a Contemporary Service, which features music from the Clay Church band in a more “modern and relaxed environment.”
During their July 23 service, halfway through their ‘Gospel in Animation’ sermon series where they’re teaching on popular movies to dig out little bibley nuggets of truth, the church takes the offering while the praise band sings ‘We don’t talk about Bruno’, a song from the pixar film ‘Encanto’ about how the animated Madrigal family has ostracized their uncle Bruno on account that they associate bad luck with his visions and magical power to see into the future.
Just the sort of song you want to sing in church.
Some of the lyrics include:
Hey! Grew to live in fear of Bruno stuttering or stumbling
I could always hear him sort of muttering and mumbling
I associate him with the sound of falling sand, ch-ch-ch
It’s a heavy lift, with a gift so humbling
Always left Abuela and the family fumbling
Grappling with prophecies they couldn’t understand
Do you understand?A seven-foot frame
Rats along his back
When he calls your name
It all fades to black
Yeah, he sees your dreams
And feasts on your screams (hey!)
Later, following the song, pastor Durand recaps Encanto and then preaches on the film, asking the congregation questions like, “Who has something in their family that is hard to talk about?”
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More like “We don’t talk about Jesus”
True. And if they do it’s definitely not the Jesus of scripture as He has revealed Himself.
Try that in a small church and see what happens.