During our Staff Staycation last weekend we visited 4 churches.
Radiant Church, Christ Church of the Valley, Life Church and Genesis.
Being a sensitive (or defensive) pastor I don't want to pick on any of them. So here are some general observations without identifying which church I'm describing.
VANILLA - everything is so predictable at church. I'm all for liturgy but does it have to be so bland?
PRODUCTION - churches work hard behind the scenes. all the churches used videos and click tracks and lighting effects and "quiet please, ready...action..."
QUALITY - from the bulletins to the programs things were done well.
PREACHING - disappointing. one pastor showed pictures of political figures to cartoon characters and explained why they could be the anti-Christ. two used scripture to get across the point they wanted to make. one taught the word with depth, insight and passion - i liked that.
PEOPLE - kind cattle.
Visiting other churches was a great experience and think everyone should take a weekend every year to do it. It was fun to be unknown, like a mystery shopper, and see what God is doing in Phoenix. If I didn't have a church home, I don't know where I would go. This reminds me that church is not a place to go, but relationships shared.
Jimmy Farley
- monkwater
- I'm a mid-thirties pastor who thinks it's all about Jesus and the church is hurtin' and I love my family and I get angry when I'm lonely around people and get energized conversing about truth and am impatient with comfortable believers and at home with non believers who believe and I'm discovering my faith is not a period but sometimes an exclamation point and sometimes a question mark and always a dot dot dot... Become a friend on FACEBOOK.
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