I removed Gary from my blog roll last week and added their Ridgestone Backstage blog in it's place...but I think I may have to add him back so I don't miss stuff like this. There are some good nuggets here that he learned from missing Church yesterday. All you "Men Don't Go To Church" people...check out #4. What can the church do to bring them in?
As I stated earlier, DeAnna and I for the first time in 10 years did not go to church on a Sunday morning. We got up and went to eat breakfast and did a few errands and along the way God really pointed out some things to me.
- RSC goes on without me - I'll be honest, from a human perspective that is somewhat hard. Everyone wants to feel needed. However, the truth is it is AWESOME! RSC is NOT about me or my "style." It is about God and what He is doing in the lives of our people. They don't come because of the music, the teaching, etc. They come because God rocks and is doing some awesome things in their lives.
- RSC has the greatest staff in the world - I have not talked to one of our staff since we left on Tuesday in regards to "church" stuff. There again that has been VERY hard for me. I kept waiting all day yesterday for a phone call with some emergency that only I could fix. The call never came because we have a awesome team that knows what they are doing, is just as sold out as I am, buys into the vision, and doesn't need me around to make it happen. That is awesome. It is good to know that if I was killed in a car wreck (not that I'm looking to die) that RSC would continue on. One of the big criticisms I get from other pastors is that RSC is built on me. People who say that don't know how awesome our team is.
- The large majority of people DO NOT go to church - Every pastor who has ever said we don't need more churches or that their church is reaching the community just fine is simply an idiot. I got the family up this morning and took the family to eat breakfast and run some errands and every place we went to was SLAMMED. Driving through the neighborhood I saw the large majority of my neighbors home. The church parking lots were empty as well. As pastors we are in church on Sunday mornings and as a result we don't see the facts about our community. The large % of people are not in church and see no point in it. The church better wake up and accept this fact and they better do it soon.
- Men don't go to church - Yep, this is my hobby horse and I make no apologies about it at all. I would say there were 3 men out for every one woman we saw. I heard three different men at three different times at three different places make some type of comment about the wife and kids being at church. The church has become to feminine in it's methods and practices that men look at it as something women do and the kids should do. This is a hill I am willing to die on and as such RSC will always focus on reaching men because if you reach the man, you reach the family.
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