Free Church Pews

[318 words] I recently saw an ad in the classifieds for free church pews. A local church was giving away 20 perfectly good traditional wooden pews with padded backs and seats. Now I’m assuming that they are replacing the wooden pews with nice padded folding chairs, as is the practice of many churches today. I would also assume that someone, somewhere is complaining that doing away with the traditional church pew would be detrimental to the fellowship of the congregation. Imagine someone saying, “The old-fashioned wooden pews promoted togetherness and fellowship. Individual folding chairs creates separatism and will destroy the unity of the church during corporate worship.” Such a thought is similar to one that circulated on social media a while back, in which some folks complained that the use of projected songs in lieu of hymn books would ruin the spiritual nature of congregational singing. “Give me that old-time…