Addendum 14A
So I spent most of the past three days PRAYING for the rapture - theologically correct or not... Man, that was some awful bug I got... However, Michael has it only partly right...if only I COULD have thrown up...
Suck Factor Addendum #14A:
Thursday night (and Friday night without me) the praise band played at a mid-sized (physically - small-sized membership-wise) church in the area. They were having two nights of "renewal" or "revival" or...well, I think they called it two nights of "witness." They were so sincere in what they were doing - the advertised, they brought in two very different speakers for the two nights - they got a...well, at least passable worship band... They put a lot of energy and some resources into the two nights.
Nobody came.
Well, that's not to say that there weren't any people in the place. The first speaker asked the crowd of, oh, maybe 25 how many weren't from that church to raise their hands - only the band and the speaker's family raised their hands...
So, twenty people came - all from the church...for...revival...
Maybe that's exactly what they need, though. Here's a suck factor addendum. One of the reasons the church sucks today is that we keep doing the same things we've always done - the same way we've always done them and then we complain that they don't work. We NEVER analyze what we SHOULD be doing, who we SHOULD be reaching. Why have these services in the church? I'm thinking that if you rent a store front or, heck, just meet on the front lawn you're going to get more people to at least see you, aren't you?
We used to have our annual revival at the last church I served. Always the same format, always the same turnout.
I'm ready to get a little bolder, now. I want to get to the the people instead of expecting the people to come to me. I want to show the world who Jesus is and what He did for me and for them. I want people to be excited about God again, not because the music was good or the preacher is funny or the drama was edgy - but because God is really worth getting excited about...
I guess that has to start with me, huh?
Wondering where my next step will land me...
Suck Factor Addendum #14A:
Thursday night (and Friday night without me) the praise band played at a mid-sized (physically - small-sized membership-wise) church in the area. They were having two nights of "renewal" or "revival" or...well, I think they called it two nights of "witness." They were so sincere in what they were doing - the advertised, they brought in two very different speakers for the two nights - they got a...well, at least passable worship band... They put a lot of energy and some resources into the two nights.
Nobody came.
Well, that's not to say that there weren't any people in the place. The first speaker asked the crowd of, oh, maybe 25 how many weren't from that church to raise their hands - only the band and the speaker's family raised their hands...
So, twenty people came - all from the church...for...revival...
Maybe that's exactly what they need, though. Here's a suck factor addendum. One of the reasons the church sucks today is that we keep doing the same things we've always done - the same way we've always done them and then we complain that they don't work. We NEVER analyze what we SHOULD be doing, who we SHOULD be reaching. Why have these services in the church? I'm thinking that if you rent a store front or, heck, just meet on the front lawn you're going to get more people to at least see you, aren't you?
We used to have our annual revival at the last church I served. Always the same format, always the same turnout.
I'm ready to get a little bolder, now. I want to get to the the people instead of expecting the people to come to me. I want to show the world who Jesus is and what He did for me and for them. I want people to be excited about God again, not because the music was good or the preacher is funny or the drama was edgy - but because God is really worth getting excited about...
I guess that has to start with me, huh?
Wondering where my next step will land me...
posted by Pastor Bill at 9:58 PM
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