Gary posted a great entry about a family that visited Ridge Stone and wrote him a letter. Basically, they said the church wasn’t for them. But, they did get what was going on there in Canton for their community and for the Kingdom and they offered to pray for the church. Check it out.
Its funny, I got a call today from someone today that had checked us out a few times and said the same thing. I really like these guys and I really wanted to pursue them. But, I have made a covenant with myself not to try to convince churched people that Life Pointe is the place for them. The bottom line is that I want the people in our church buying in to what we do and loving it naturally. If I have to convince people to like what is going on here to get their involvement or worse…their money, we are off mission and off task and out of focus. That isn’t what the Church is about.
Of course, we will have and do have people who don’t necessarily prefer our style but who serve enthusiastically because they want their kids to love church or because they are all about mission and their personal preferences take a back seat. I love that heart. Even more, I love it when people have a strong understanding about the mission of Jesus and they see the Church as more than just a place to get spiritually fat.
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