Why the surprise?

I've always been a bit of a fan of Chris Moyles, the load-mouthed, opinionated (and, imho, genius) Radio 1 Breakfast presenter - though I don't get to listen to him much these days... and he's created a bit of a stir this past week on the Christian facebook / YouTube / twitter channels with his remarks - and subsequent animated discussion - live on Radio 1 about a Songs of Praise Pentecost service from Kingsgate Community Church in Peterborough.

It's a wonderful 6 minutes of Radio - he's been bowled over completely by watching a service that has "life", "enthusiasm" and "a bass guitar"... but isn't it surprising how surprised most of us are that he's responded like that?

There's a whole chunk of people we've assumed will never respond to church positively - the 'cool', the cynical, men, teenagers, rich people... you name it, we've written them off.

It doesn't have to be that way though - we've seen that many, many times. People can find what they don't expect in church, something that cuts through their childhood experiences (Moyles was brought up Catholic), prejudices and cynicism.

Who would you ask to church, but have assumed they'd just laugh?