This Week in Mission – Sept 29 08

 

Friends,

 

Here I go again .. .still traveling … still consulting … still teaching. Today I complete a “Net Results Free Seminar” in Columbus Ohio, with over 150 attending. We talked about the synergy and sidetracks of church growth .. and the strategies for life-shaping worship, serious accountable adult spiritual disciplines, and mission action. (Anybody interested in such seminars ought to contact me).

 

I was intrigued by the passion of the interaction, and by the readiness of clergy, staff, and lay leaders to take risk for the sake of the Gospel. What was most interesting?

 

Well, the most interesting insight was the comment by one pastor that his mind was blown by the recognition that seekers are no longer on a “quest for quality”. True, “boomers” are still looking for the program that will meet their needs. But he realized that the merging post-boomer generations are not. They are looking for mentoring relationships, and for churches that will empower them to grow spiritually and personally, even to the extent of acceptable mediocrity, and opportunities to learn from mistakes. Big difference.

 

Tom Bandy

Currently Indianapolis

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