Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Please, No More Doing Church for 'Them'

Interesting post from BlogBlog (see link after this short excerpt)

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I just received a question from an associate that asked how to start a service to attract people from outside the church. I encouraged her to give up on this idea.

But what is wrong with starting a relevant church for seekers?

Relevant churches are rarely even closely relevant. Most Christians don't even like them. They might be better than Mom and Dad's morning service, but they usually are quite irrelevant to the outsider. The church person cannot 'guess' what the seeker wants, undoubtedly getting it wrong. What Christians need to do is create meaningful worship through bringing their very own lives to God.

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