You guys can't handle how relevant my church is.By: James Bromley
Church Planter
Honestly, if you want people to come to your church, you've got to be willing to meet them on their level. The internet, relationships, post-modernism, new generation, 360 degree leadership, incense... these are the things the every day person cares about. Seriously, I was just reading in that new Donald Bell trendy church book Everyday Situations Are More Spiritual Than You Thought about how churches today need to be more emerging, casual, authentic, formal, simple, leadership oriented, communal, have cool videos, and attendee oriented. And that's exactly the vision Hopewalk Christian Center is accomplishing in this community.
You can ask anyone in my po-mo (post-modern for those of you unaware) congregation, and they'll tell you, Hopewalk has the coolest website and the elitist lobby coffee shop of any church in the area. And believe me, my people know. They used to attend your church, as well as 5 or 6 other none high-definition chuches in the city.
Get with it old guys! It's time to get back to the 1st century church! Get yourselves a cool logo already and a book deal for your pastors. If you haven't released a series of video devotionals with accompanying discussion guide, you're already out of touch. This is the information age and it's time the church recognize it by posting on our blogs.
As the number of Americans attending church continues to fall and yet the number of mega-churches continues to rise it's time to ask ourselves an important question. Why am I not one of those mega-churches? There's a reason I left the business field to become a pastor. It's because I had a burden to be in charge of something! In charge of something God would grow and bless to make me make him look awesome!
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2 comments:
Well MY church is so postmodern it only exists in my head... and yours.... and yours (be afraid)
...i'm gonna name my first kid pomo.
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