After my post yesterday, I started out thinking today why not.
Why would a church not want to experience growth? Why would a church not want to do things with excellence? Why would a person not want to be a part of a church that is really moving and doing something?
I think it's lip service partly and I think that some pastors who are leading churches just simply don't know how to get it done.
They don't know how to motivate their people to reach out. They don't know how to set up organizational systems that will handle this.
Remember we live in a totally different culture as well as era than Acts 2. The culture we live in is used to seeing businesses with excellence. They are used to going down to the latest and hippest restaurant and getting excellent service and being in an environment that is done to reach them.
But in church we just only want to handle the spiritual dynamic and think that people are going to come, be attracted to, and stay at something that they may consider lame.
And then we give the excuse that we just want to be spiritual and people see us for who we truly are.
And they are seeing you and they are not coming back.
Reality check. You can be culturally relevant, have a great environment that reaches the lost, and be spiritual.
So why not? Why not go for it?
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- Jason Curlee
- Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
- My blogs are about creating content that ministry leaders can find practical and inspirational. They are about sharing the ministry principles and experiences we have accumulated since 1995. It’s about being innovative, unique, and creating content that can help you make a difference. Whether you are a pastor, ministry leader, volunteer, friend or family, these blogs are written for you. With ministry experience in three churches since 1995, I have a passion for helping ministry leaders excel in what they do. With youth ministry success in two churches and working on staff for a 4,000 member church, it is my desire to give back to the ministry community as a whole. I am a Church Planter and Campus Pastor for Bay Area Fellowship in Corpus Christi, Texas. I am about influencing and developing others to make a difference in their world. This blog contains the random inner workings of his mind and in no way reflects the thoughts or opinions of Bay Area Fellowship, the BAF staff or the people who attend BAF.
2 comments:
I couldn't agree more! I have had that same conversation with so many people. People who I call my dear friends and that go to my church, but some how they loose the focus and think we should be more spontaneous and that would make us more spiritual. It sure is a hard thing to get people to see it.
I couldn't agree more! I have had this same conversation with lots of people. People who are my dear friends and go to the same church. For some reason they have a tendency to think that we should be more spontaneous and that would make us more spiritual. What?!? Its sometimes hard to get people to think different.
My prayers are with you in your new adventure. I'm looking for a new job myself. Trying to see where God wants me next.
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