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May182008 Filed under: Inside NewSpring Author: tonyHere are some of my favorites lines from Perry’s message this morning:
- “He didn’t need a lecture or more knowledge, he needed someone to pick him up.”
- “I don’t want to be a perfect church for perfect people.”
- “If you love the way we do church right now, you’re probably going to hate it in 10 years.”
- “We’re going to do anything short of sin to reach people for Jesus. It may make you uncomfortable, but you will hopefully be mature enough to handle that.”
- “I’m sick and tired of Las Vegas and Hollywood outdoing the church.”
- “We’re never supposed to be safe, because God created us to be dangerous.”
- “Come in the house. Let’s connect with what the Father is doing.”
- “I don’t think all Christians are Republicans.”
- “We’re trying to save the planet while the people on it are dying and going to Hell.”
- “We’re going to celebrate who Jesus is and what he is doing.”
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Tony Morgan is a pastor and the Chief Strategic Officer at NewSpring Church where he develops creative solutions for communications, technology and NewSpring Ministries--the church's ministry that equips other church leaders.
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Lee Coate
May 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Hey Tony -
Love the blurbs from Perry’s message. There are two that are curious to me and would love to hear your feedback.
*”I’m sick and tired of Vegas and Hollywood outdoing the church”
-Help me with context and what exactly Perry was referring to that we should be “outdoing”. I believe he is definitely onto something but unsure of if I am onboard with our motivation being to outdo two icons of the world’s system. BTW - this is from a guy doing ministry in Vegas.
*”save the planet while people on it are dying and going to hell”
-Is Perry pushing back on the renewed emphasis within the church to be part of the “green” movement? I’ve been pondering it.
Lee
Scott
May 19th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
The “green” push of the American Church recently has made me nauseous. Give me a break. Perry is right-on with this point.
Kevin Connell
May 19th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Tony, thank you for posting the Perryisms, I have used them to share with and disciple my leaders.
Kevin - Jax, Fl
Craig Hamer
May 20th, 2008 at 7:53 am
These comments made me push back more than want to listen to sermon for myself. I am tired of us looking to the world for our cues and culture for our redemption. Are we the ones called to redeem things? I would agree the recent push for being green has been very popular, but could that also mean that people are begining that we were given stewardship of this world? If I read Gensis correctly, we have a responsibility but we aren’t supposed to just rape and pillage for our own glory. Why not take care of the planet and this maybe a bigger message to the world than a million sermons and church services.
Carey
May 20th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Craig, I’m right with you on the green thing. I’m 24, and I see the emphasis on green as a way to reach out to my peers. I truly believe that God has called us to take care of this earth, and if I were not a Jesus-follower but saw a church using all recycled paper and trying to reduce their carbon footprint, and then they said “We are green too, but we are green for a different reason than saving money or because it’s popular”, I would want to know why they thought it was important.
This is why I think one of my biggest impacts in the year and a half I’ve been at this church is reducing bulletin costs by 90%, even while switching to 100% recycled paper for the main part and at least 30% for any other parts of it.
Side note–The church I am actually a part of is a house church, and we don’t use paper, especially not printing something each week. Instead we use a projector, or a laptop connected to a TV, as well as a free website/blog format and email to communicate. We also did a special teaching on Earth Day, with Scripture, tips, songs all tied together.