Mindy Can't?

I remember my friend Mindy, a co-worker at Lockman Foundation, telling me that her parents were pastors in a Presbyterian church whose tradition was very high church. I had not previously heard that term and am to this day not certain of the meaning. High church generally refers to what some refer to as the church of the "frozen chosen," those sanctuaries of stuffy churchianity, of liturgical calendars and a rigid formality that is somewhat foreign to the traditions of any church I ever attended. If it was good enough for the King James I they would not see any reason to modernize. High church means Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian. The Crystal Cathedral would be a prime example of high churchianity. That is so completely different from the low church traditions with which I am familiar, the denomination to which I belong generally being considered of the low church variety. Not that we would emulate the random stand-up testimonials of the Quakers, but our worship calendar is generally not dictated from higher authorities but is done by the local church and its staff who may take suggestions from headquarters but are not necessarily required to be strictly imitators of Springfield although there appears to be a current trend towards high-church stuffiness in some circles in that the people are no longer allowed to have opinions but rather all power is concentrated in the authority of the staff. Generally speaking, high church people tend to look down their noses at low church people and typically attempt to portray us as uneducated, unsophisticated, and incapable of making decisions for ourselves. However, we are not so unsophisticated as to not notice that they are attempting to disenfranchise us from our own faith, and so that is why we invented low church, so that we can do our own thing and they can do their own thing over there in high churchianity. Thus I cannot really say what happened to Mindy after she moved away to Northern California. They are not really Pentecostal anyway so they would have a hard time understanding what I am trying to say. They can't get it anyway so they would just try to pretend like it was our problem and create a lot of unnecessary problems for us if the subject were to come up. With low church, we can have great Christian musicians who are not church pastors, and probably in some cases should not be, but who do express beautifully the faith of regular, ordinary Christians, the things that we all think and feel in life and worship, whether Pentecostal or non-Pentecostal, while deemphasizing the differences of denominational practice.