What if the meeting times, places, and format were different? <\/strong><\/p>\nWhat if the best time for a church to meet is not on Sunday morning?<\/p>\n
What if the best place to meet is not in a building?<\/p>\n
What if the best format is not song, announcements, songs, prayer, sermon?<\/p>\n
What if believers realized that church has nothing to do with the building on the corner?<\/p>\n
What if we didn\u2019t have the financial black hole of a building?<\/p>\n
What if when we had \u201cservice\u201d we actually did some service?<\/p>\n
What if our only \u201cservice\u201d of the week was service? (Meet. Eat. Teach. Serve.)<\/p>\n
Ministries<\/strong>
\nWhat if we started ministries based on what spiritual gifts were present in the church, not based on what the church down the street was doing?<\/p>\nWhat if we didn\u2019t feel like we had to offer all things to all people?<\/p>\n
What if we had fewer ministries, and did not expect people to be involved or present in all of them?<\/p>\n
Church Planting
\n<\/strong>What if our goal for church planting wasn\u2019t to plant churches, but to make disciples?<\/p>\nWhat if our goal wasn\u2019t to get a crowd together, but to change the world, to turn the world upside down?<\/p>\n
What if our way of \u201cdoing church\u201d was so simple, basic, memorable, easy, reproducible, that anybody could do it, no matter how long they have been a Christian, or how much they know, or how much training they don\u2019t have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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