Everything ends. Including congregations. It’s natural and orderly. But if we don’t produce a new generation of churches, we will fade away.
Archive for September, 2009
$10 Million will easily get us 20 church plants: 6 or 7 will fail, 6 or 7 will survive but be small, and 6 or 7 will become large. Discuss.
Do you think starting new congregations is important for the future of the church? Tell somebody! This week the GC board will discuss.
The Most Effective Means
Sep 23
The most effective means of helping people find a path to God is a motivated community of people who recently discovered a path themselves.
Classic Sponge Ball Routine
Sep 22
This is the “out-of-the-box” (which, in my opinion, is the OPPOSITE of “outside-of-the-box”) routine with those silly spongey balls. I sympathize with Joshua Jay when he says (in his awesome book/DVD combo “Complete Magic”) that sponge balls are weird foreign objects that sillify modern magic. (Okay, not his words, but close enough.)
But I couldn’t resist. The things are just too darn fun to play with! So I cranked up some Chili Peppers and put on a show. Enjoy:
In other news, I am working on a formal “Why the General Church Needs to Plant New Churches in New Places” argument. I’m writing it as a paper, but will also be putting together a power point presentation, and maybe a video. As I work this out, I may try just blithering ideas on video here at MacFrazier.com, as a way of getting my thoughts strait. I would love to have your feedback as I do so. So stay tuned….