October 28, 2009 in
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- 11:36 AM tonymorganlive - ed is telling a story to open the first message from Story 09.
- 11:39 AM tonymorganlive - “the Bible is all about rescue.”
- 11:40 AM tonymorganlive - “the radically rescued should rescue the radicals.”
- 11:43 AM tonymorganlive - “everybody wants to reach to people until you start reaching people.”
- 11:46 AM tonymorganlive - “i love to rhyme when i’m speaking.” (no kidding…)
- 11:51 AM tonymorganlive - “i would rather have people choose to volunteer over being in a small group.”
- 11:52 AM tonymorganlive - “who are you reaching?”
- 11:53 AM tonymorganlive - rather than “how many people are showing up?”
- 11:53 AM tonymorganlive - “chaos is good.”
- 11:56 AM tonymorganlive - “usually staff members want to hire people to do their job.”
- 11:56 AM tonymorganlive - “we would rather pay for it than get volunteers.”
- 12:01 PM tonymorganlive - “be active in sharing your faith.”
- 12:03 PM tonymorganlive - “let people share their rescue story.”
- 12:04 PM tonymorganlive - “leverage your passion for a purpose” to reach people.
- 12:05 PM tonymorganlive - “people pray some dumb prayers.”
I like that stuff. Except for one thing. I would rather have people in small groups than volunteer. Volunteering is important, we should teach our people to serve, and we should not pay for what we can involve others to accomplish. but…I dream of a church with people feeding themselves and experiencing community (rather than depending on Sunday mornings to do that). Ideally, members would do both. But if I had to choose, I would rather someone get plugged into a community group and do life together than to volunteer.