I just bought www.garylamb.org
I haven’t figured out what I am going to do with it and if I did know what I was going to do with it, I wouldn’t know how to do it.
Hopefully, I’ll be moving the blog to this domain in the next month or so.

With Go Daddy being so cheap, I had to buy it before the piano playing Gary Lamb who owns www.garylamb.com bought it.

I will wait though to transfer the domain because I really want to switch to Typepad. I really have no reason to switch. Typepad isn’t free like Blogger but it does have some features that I would like to add.

I am digging the blogging thing.

After trying to post a picture, I needed a laugh. So whenever I need a laugh I have to go hear my favorite comedian, Jim Bruer. He has one of the funniest bits with his Hokey Pokey thing. So in honor of all you AC/DC fans, click here and click on the Hokey Pokey song.

Monday Morning Insights has a good read on the new emerging church. Check it out here.

I have tried and tired and tried and tried to post a picture to this blog, it will not work. I have had several of you send me the html stuff and all I had to do was copy and paste. It didn’t work.

So this will be a no picture blog.
Sorry. Actually, no I’m not, I’m so freaking mad right now, that if I could post a picture, I wouldn’t.

Before starting RSC, I served on staff at West Ridge Church in Paulding County, Georgia. WRC is a great church, doing great things and I will write about them one day. But while I was there I meet four guys who were trying to make it big in the music industry. I could relate to them because I saw them paying their dues and doing every thing they could to get signed. They wanted it bad and they were willing to do whatever it took to make it. The reason I could relate is because I felt the same way about planting a church. Right about the time I left, they got signed and they just had their first CD come out. Check out Exit East and go buy their CD (they have families to feed), it is great! I don’t know many Christian artists but I do know these guys are the real deal.

BTW, I tried to post a picture of their CD but couldn’t figure it out. Help Charlie!

I’m sorry but I don’t get it. The majority of blogs I read by pastors have to do with the postmodern movement in churches. Most of the new books coming out are about the postmodern movement in churches. The hottest speakers right now are talking about the postmodern movement. I’m sorry, I don’t get it.

I’ve read the stuff, I have listened to the speakers, and I have attended the churches. I simply don’t understand it. The talk is that the modern church is no longer relevant. I don’t get that. I live in a town where the average age is 29 years old. That is a young town. It is a town that for suburban Atlanta actually embraces the arts. However I read the latest and greatest about postmodernism, I look at my area, and I shake my head because if someone tried that stuff here, they would close down in a week.

I would like to see some examples of this postmodern church actually working. I know there is a handful of them out there getting the job done but by in-large, the ones I know of are a joke and aren’t reaching anyone. Yes, their websites look cool, yes, they use cool language, yes the pastor seems relevant but, all I see is small churches that aren’t reaching anyone.

I like what Rick Warren said at the PDC conference, “Saddleback according to age and demographic is the largest “postmodern” church in America.” That isn’t a direct quote by you get the idea.

Does the modern church have problems? Yep.
Do we need to change some things? Yep.
Are we still reaching a greater amount of people for Christ then ever before? Yep.

So until I see further proof that the postmodern church is truly going to reach people for Christ, I’ll stick with what is working.

End Rant.

I am not computer smart, heck I’m not anything smart if the truth be known. I am trying to figure out all the different things I can do with the blog like adding pictures, rss feeds, yada, yada. But it is confusing. Lucky for me I have my boy, Charlie Pharris to walk me through a lot of it. So bear with me as I learn the ropes. Until then, check out Charle’s blog and listen to the ramblings of POMO lover.

I saw a music video the other day and was thinking about writing about in my blog, but before I could, a friend of mine, Art Good wrote about and hit the nail on the head. Art is out of the box thinker stuck in a church that invented the box! Great post Art, and hang in there. Oh yeah, to check out article, click here.

Today I gave my staff and myself, the day off. Normally, Mondays are a huge day for us. We have staff meetings before lunch, do lunch together, and then I meet with each of the guys individually. On a normal week, we take Friday off and most of the time Saturday. But after this weekend, they deserved Monday off.

I needed a break from Ridge Stone, so I know they did. Today I spent the day with the family. We played games, went to McDonalds, and finished up at Dairy Queen. I sit here now ready to get back into the battle.

It is easy to blow this principle off but you are hurting yourself, your family and the church by not doing it.

Guess what?

The church can make it without you for a day and if it can’t, your in worse shape then you thought.

Church Planting is hard. I know that doesn’t sound like earth-shattering news but, I tend to forget that sometimes. As with most church plants, we meet in a temporary location. In our case, it is a school and they are GREAT to us. However tearing down a school, setting up a church, tearing down a church, and resetting up a school, gets very tiring and it is easy to feel sorry for yourself.

For Easter weekend we started at the school at 5:00 pm on Friday. We worked right up until our first service on Saturday night and finally got done about 2:00 pm Sunday afternoon.

During this time there were several conflicts, several times where we had to reevaluate the design, several times we were blowing breakers, and several times our creative element at the start of the service was not working.

Right now, I am worn out. However to think about the fact that 515 people came through our 8 month old church this weekend and heard that God loves them, is awesome.

I am tired but, it is a good kind of tired.