This morning, I've been doing some dreaming/visioning for Center Chapel. The summer is a great time for a church staff to dream & plan for the future. I believe this summer is a crucial planning/dreaming/visioning time for our church. As we look to what the future holds, the decisions we make today will have a great impact on how effective we are at bringing the Gospel to those in our community.
So, I'd love to hear how some of you would complete the sentence, "I dream of a church..."
It could be anything. One of the thoughts I had this morning had to do with our worship services. Currently, our main service is a blended worship service. If you know me, then you know that I think blended worship is of the devil. It's one of those things where we try to become all things to all people, offering something for everyone to keep the masses happy in one service time. What ends up happening is that no one ends up being happy. And, we end up having lengthy worship services.
I dream of a church where we offer multiple worship styles in different and unique worship services. In attempting to become all things to all people, we could have different worship services of different styles rather than trying to cram everything into one service. We could have a traditional service, contemporary service, and even a blended service (though I don't think it would be necessary if we clearly defined our services.
So, what do you dream of?
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How dare you refer to blended worship as being "of the devil"! The church I work in has blended worship, and, believe it or not, God continues to bless us each Sunday morning with 2,000 people. How about being careful what you refer to as being "of the devil".
See, that's the great thing. What doesn't work for one community or one believer just might work for another. And, that's the great thing about opinions...everyone can have them.
Dr. Brosio would be proud of such a dynamic and radical statementl. Remember, he taught us all that radical statements are sometimes required in order to spark debate. Change is brought about from skilled and focused debate. However, you might have gone for the "lukewarm" reference as well.
Dad
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