Saw this on Pete Wilson's (The Other Crosspoint Guy) blog. This is what Im praying for one day at Crosspoint! It freakin ROCKS! This is from a worship Service at Mars Hill's Ballard Campus. You like?
This video wrecked me! Wish I could have seen the whole message. Its from Hillside Christian Church in Amarillo Texas
Today's experience at Crosspoint blew me away. First - its dead middle of june. second - we have about 25 people at the beach - third our attendance was really good today - D - we are doing a series with video preaching - and we "borrowed" a band. Plus - well - everything was different today - G we had a TON of guests! - 8 the experience was off the hook.
Other mind dump stuff
Tomorrow we are going to have a GREAT message for One Prayer. Craig Groeshel of Lifechurch.tv will be talking about His Prayer - Lord, Make us ONE. I have to say that I cant think of a better way to kick off the series. First, this was Craig's idea and I would like to honor him by putting him up first. Second, Lifechurch's video is absolutely sick. They really thought this out - and have some eye opening stuff - and some really FUNNY stuff. You dont want to miss it.
Also it speaks to the problem in the church today! I contacted three churches to see if they would like to partner with us during One Prayer to make a community impact. I should have contacted more. My bad. Two declined to participate in the series - and one church that is participating in the series wasn't interested in working together. Huh? Whats up with that? Anyway - Im excited about the series and praying that God will make us ONE!
One of my dreams for Crosspoint is to help plant a church. I cant tell you how badly I want to be part of this. We have some some very small things to help other churches - but come June we have an opportunity that jacks me up!
As part of One Prayer, we will join with other churches to be part of planting not 1, not 10, not 100...But 500! (YES FIVE ZERO ZERO) churches! Imagine the impact of 500 new churches! You can read more about this initiative on Tim Steven's blog and the One Prayer Mission site. Over 800 churches have now joined OnePrayer. If you go to Crosspoint I seriously want to ask you to start praying and fasting and asking God how YOU can participate in this amazing mission initiative revolution!
Starting June 8, Crosspoint will participate with over 700 other churches in an exciting adventure and new series called "One Prayer". If you could pray One Prayer for the church at large - what would it be? During this series, we will be hearing from a few of the greatest communicators in the world about what we could as a church if we acted as One Church. I am excited about this new series because we are going to do some things that are crazy impossible. But God is into the impossible!
If you go to Crosspoint, start praying now for this series. There wont be any NASCAR or Prison Bars for One Prayer. But I believe the Power of God will overwhelm us as we join together with churches all over the globe to make a difference globally and as we do some things right here in Decatur to make an impact locally. Together we can change the world! Thats exciting. But it also excites me that God is going to change Crosspoint - and me!
Get ready for One Prayer
Remember the Polaroid Camera? I can remember when I saw one for the first time. It was pretty amazing. A picture developing right before your eyes in 60 seconds. They had some kind of liquid you swabbed onto it to protect it. Over the years it got better and better. Recently Polaroid announced they will stop making the film. They already discontinued the cameras. I wonder how long before they shut the doors? Honestly - who buys Polaroid stuff now? Im not a business analyst so I cant speculate if they can compete in the consumer electronics space like they are trying to do but this is a classic example of not evolving your company with the times. They used to have something no one else did. Now they sell the same crap as everyone else and its not as good. They stopped innovating.
Churches do the same thing. The culture changes and shifts but we think we can use 60 year old methods to reach today's generation. We have a church in our town from time to time that changes their marquee to say "We preach the bible and sing the old hymns" Uh???? So! Who cares. One day your sign will say "for sale" if you keep up that attitude. Yes - preach the bible. Sing some old hymns - we have some we love. But we still try and move with the culture. You cant sell 8 tracks in the MP3 world or Polaroid in the Digital world. (Unless its to a collector). The church shouldnt be a museum to what worked in the past. We should be an R&D facility for what it takes to reach the next generation.
I'll admit - Im not doing a good job at R&D. I am mostly and adapter in my culture rather than an innovator. But I'd rather be an adapter of what is cutting edge now than a museum curator of what was cutting edge for my grandfather. Don't be a Polaroid church and if you go to Crosspoint remember, just because we do it this way today - doesnt mean we'll do it this way tomorrow. We are not a Polariod church
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