Hmmmm...To Think....Perchance to Dream?

Bill Kinnon hits it out of the park with this post that he developed from Dan Whitemarsh...

What we win them with, is what we win them to. Win them with entertainment, and you've created customers - who expect to be continually entertained.

Picking up our crosses and following Jesus is not particularly attractive. Buying into a worldview where the last are first, and the first are last doesn't win us any earthly popularity awards - and seems antithetical to the North American Dream.

So.

Please allow me to suggest.

If you insist on bragging about your church, don't tell us about the numbers. Tell us about how the Kingdom has come to your community. Tell us of the lame who walk, the blind who see, the debts that have been forgiven, the reconciliation that has taken place at personal, generational & racial levels, how the poor and the outcast are loved and taken care of, how widows and orphans are grafted into the church family, how your community is experiencing the Year of Jubilee - because of what the Spirit is doing in and through your church.

But if all you can talk about are your numbers, then, please...

...just shut up. It's long past old.