What?!?!
As one who as been trained to be a religious professional I probably shouldn’t creates posts about how the organization by which I am employed is boring. That’s a pretty big no-no. So what am I talking about?
I read this post by Seth Godin. And it got me thinking . . .
here are some highlights:
If people aren’t discussing . . . your movement there’s a reason.
The reason is that you’re boring.
You don’t get unboring for free. Remarkable costs time and money and effort, but most of all, remarkable costs a willingness to be wrong.
Remarkable is a choice.
Church is boring because people are not talking about it. People are not talking about what’s happening there, people are not talking about the lives that are being changed, the good that the community is bringing to the neighborhood, the strength of the community, the times of worship.
The last thing a church wants to be is boring, because boring is forgotten on the way home. There are several qualifiers though. Anti-boring does not mean flashy; you don’t have to have the best show in town. Anti-boring does not mean controversial; you don’t need to do a 3 month series on sex in the Bible. Anti-Boring does not mean pure entertainment; the band doesn’t have to be the best, your preacher doesn’t have to be the funniest, most compelling or best looking pastor in the world.
When it comes to the church, all of those things are neat. And some churches may be able to grow because of controversy, or production, or just plain good looks. But a church that’s remarkable gets remarkable for what happens the other 6 days of the week.
Our church is striving to be remarkable. We want people to talk about what happens on sunday, we want them to remark on what happens in their community group. We want Creekside to be a community that people just can’t shut up about, because ultimately, when we talk about what’s happening at Creekside, we are talking about what Jesus is up to, and that’s pretty stinkin’ remarkable.
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