Launch Meeting TWO

Last Week 11 of us gathered into room 203 at THIS church building and 'pondered' church. Outoud.

As a Leader, I know that a certain amount of discussion and input goes a long way in building team cohesiveness, but what I didn't know that our 'pondering' would take up the entire meeting time!

Although, we won't have the same type of meeting this coming week, last weeks meeting was quite significant to many of us. To use the words in the video we saw that night, I'd say our meeting helped our "hearts to beat more and more like God's heart". Hearts beating more like God's heart will go a LONG WAY towards the success of a church-plant!

After watching the video in the NOOMA series titled, "Sunday" we asked the question, "When it comes to church, what do you think God had in mind?". Here's a very quick summary of a very long and rich conversation

• It's supposed to be personal, not just something to "watch" happen
• It's about being connected, like a body
• It's not about formal rituals, not about being "talked at", but "talked with"
• More like a team than a hierarchy
• Church should go out and do more things - show the way, not just talk about it!
• It should put Jesus first, 'lift' him up, and feature him, not a 'show'.
  
• It shouldn't just be about 'self-help' - we don't need church to learn about that, we need church to revolve around Jesus and his ways.
• The people at the meetings should be excited, not boring.
• There's a large group of people who are really interested in Jesus, but are really turned off by the church (I dream about a church that can actually affect our culture in such a way that people won't make the distinction between Jesus and the church).

See you Sunday at 6pm?

Love ya,

Joe

p.s. Below is a clip of the video that we watched. If you'd like to borrow my copy, I'd be more than willing to let you.

Join our Launch Team?
By 2020 our population in Fresno is projected to grow by 362,000 people. If we were to provide a church for only 10% of the new growth, we will need 72 new churches with 500 members.

No county in America has more Christians in it today than it did 10 years ago. Church planting is the most biblical way of evangelism. The Church is God’s plan for a broken and lost world.

Even though church planting is extremely important and significant, you don’t need any special skills to join this church planting team. We are looking to increase the size of this team every single day until we ‘launch’ in May.