Drew has lunch with the Barna Group today, and in the process of digesting the interaction
David asks, “What if we, as the church, have gotten really good about drawing people into our weekend church services? What if we have gotten really good about engaging them in worship, teaching, and fellowship during these weekend services? We’d probably be pretty happy right?
However, what if in doing this, we have made people dependant on the weekend service for worship, teaching, and fellowship? What if in doing this, we have enabled them to be unable to worship, learn from Scripture, and engage in fellowship throughout the rest of the week? What if in doing this, we have actually been “doing” church for our congregants rather than releasing them “to be” the church. What if in doing this, we are actually doing more of a spiritual diservice to them in the process?
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Check out Todd Blosinger (It Takes a Church Blog http://bolsinger.blogs.com/weblog/) about Barna’s thoughts that mirrorr this posting…I think, personally, that there is a degradation of the communal in thinking that it somehow diminishes individual faith. The problem is that we need both a strong inner individual connection and the community of faith. The “both and” is needed, in my opinion.
Whatever you call it, open source really seems to line up with the personality of the church as a missional force today. I only wish that more leaders were aware of the existence and benefits of such ministry capabilities. I’m attending a workshop tomorrow at Engage Conference at Prestonwood Baptist in Plano – the breakout session is all about new/open media and ministry and I’ll share some stuff I learn when it’s all said and done. I’m grateful for sites like ChurchCrunch that are expanding the awareness.
sweet! keep us posted. love to hear about it.