Day in the Life.

Well, our first official service seems like a distant memory. I can barely remember.....NOT! This week has been filled with awesome phone calls and meetings with awesome people. Everyone I talk to seem so excited about this new style of church. The adjective I've heard the most is. "Fresh." Now I know we get in trouble if we just start believing our own press, but it is reassuring to know that people do think our services are fresh. I mean after all that is one thing we strove to accomplish, a fresh [new] way to do church.

I read in a book the other day [I'm a book junkie] that even the deepest rooted traditions in the church started out as a revolutionary idea. That made me think. Thinking is good. That means if we are not careful the very things we find being cutting edge-revolutionary today, holds the potential to be a deep rooted sacred cow in 20 years. Yuck! Could you imagine our kids telling their kids, "No we do it that way b/c that's how it has always been done! You have to put the words on the screen, we cannot read them out of a book!" Funny huh?

I think one of the challenges is continuing to keep services fresh and in tune with what God is doing today. Not yesterday, and not even tomorrow. We can also be in danger of trying to be the 'future' church. well, the problem with that is that we would be so future that we wouldn't be relevant to today. Yea, I think God is really in to relating today.