Talking Shop
Today I talked on the phone with two different church planters and had breakfast with a pastor. I loved it. I love talking shop. I think we are in one of the most exciting, innovative, creative, and outside the box times in the church.
Literally, the only thing stopping us in ways of doing church is our imagination. In the topic of my conversations I talked about the following CRAZY things:
- Taking over a church MILLIONS of dollars in debt and the struggles that go with that
- Dealing with staffing issues
- Knowing when it is time to build
- Churches in movie theaters
- Poker Tournaments
- Churches meeting in bars. Yes, you read that right.
- Churches using mobile kids space (RV’s, Buses, Trailers)
We are one of the craziest times in the history of our church and yet it is one of the most exciting. I mean we are a church in a movie theater that is talking about launching a SECOND location in a closed down bar that has a VERY seedy reputation, that has NO kids space, and the half the land is zoned in the city and the other half is zoned in the county!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!! If we get the bar, we will have our first building project.
On top of that, we are about to spend the LARGEST amount of money we have EVER spent to enable us to video sermons to show in other locations. Who would have thought that was a way to do church 10 years ago?
Man, I love church planting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!