Myths To Reaching Unchurched People

By NO means is Revolution the perfect church and by NO means am I the perfect pastor. In fact, I could write a book on how not to pastor a church. I have made so many stupid decisions since starting Revolution that I can’t believe she still exists. It is only by the grace of God and the willingness of our people to allow me to grow as a leader that we are still around.

There are a million things we could have done better and could do better now, but there is one area we excel in at Revolution and that is in the area of reaching UNCHURCHED people.  I don’t mean to sound cocky or arrogant but the fact of the matter is Revolution does a GREAT job of reaching people who are far from God. This was never more clear to me as we were building out Holly Springs campus. There was a day when I looked around the building and EVERYONE in the building working was unchurched prior to coming to Revolution. The room was full of addicts, ex-cons, and just people who previously had no interest in God or church.

I find this be awesome.  I mean we started Revolution Church to reach those far from God, yet when our critics start criticizing this is the fact they love to bring up.  I have learned not to pay attention to the naysayers, but as I sat here tonight I started thinking of all the myths there are about churches that are truly reaching lost people.  I actually laugh out loud at many of them due to the sheer lack of ignorance of those who are doing the criticizing.

Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to shatter some of the myths I hear about churches that are focused on reaching truly unchurched people.  It should be fun.

Some of the myths I want to talk about are:

• You have to water down your message to reach unchurched people
• You can’t have any standards when it comes to leadership
• You can’t talk about money
• It’s all about entrainment
• It’s all about numbers
• We hate Christians
• It’s all about building my (or whoever the pastor is) own kingdom
• Plus a few more I’ll probably think of as I start writing