Crossroads UMC In the News!
I've got a number of e-mails and people mentioning the write-up about Crossroads UMC, our trailer and preseason. Thank you all for the kind words and to those who have joined our 30 Days Of Prayer...We love you!!
This was a great article and highlighted some key points about new church starts not often talked about. When established churches partner and invest in new church starts, it allows them to experience and take with them some key elements this article points out:
1. Connecting People. More than anything, new churches allow people to connect to their communities and neighbors not often possible any other way.
2. Portability and Change. New churches have to be portable and able to change/adapt to circumstances often beyond their control.
3. Task Oriented. Don't confuse with "works righteousness." New churches are mission driven and so are task oriented. The mission of new churches is to connect to disconnected people and connect them to Jesus Christ.
4. Energy and Excitement. Some times you run on adrenaline and other times on excitement. When you see new faces and people connect to a purpose and find a place to serve Jesus that is meaningful, it changes lives.
Oswald Chambers put it this way,
May I Ask?Have you found a way to support a new church start? Has your church been encouraging to new churches?
May I Suggest? Join us at Crossroads for our 30 Days Of Prayer, find a new church in your community and give them a helping hand one week, or better yet, join the team!
This was a great article and highlighted some key points about new church starts not often talked about. When established churches partner and invest in new church starts, it allows them to experience and take with them some key elements this article points out:
1. Connecting People. More than anything, new churches allow people to connect to their communities and neighbors not often possible any other way.
2. Portability and Change. New churches have to be portable and able to change/adapt to circumstances often beyond their control.
3. Task Oriented. Don't confuse with "works righteousness." New churches are mission driven and so are task oriented. The mission of new churches is to connect to disconnected people and connect them to Jesus Christ.
4. Energy and Excitement. Some times you run on adrenaline and other times on excitement. When you see new faces and people connect to a purpose and find a place to serve Jesus that is meaningful, it changes lives.
Oswald Chambers put it this way,
"Sanctification makes me one with Jesus Christ, and in Him one with God, and it is done only through the superb atonement of Christ. Never put the effect as the cause. The effect...is obedience, service and prayer..."
May I Ask?Have you found a way to support a new church start? Has your church been encouraging to new churches? May I Suggest? Join us at Crossroads for our 30 Days Of Prayer, find a new church in your community and give them a helping hand one week, or better yet, join the team!
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Ah, and all you say here can be applied to old churches that are ever endeavoring to be made new.
I agree, and in a way that was my point. Having served at a church trying to do just that, it would have been great to have had the chance to partner with a new church start.
Being on the other side of it now, I would like to see that kind of thing happen. Conference wide, if we had more churches investing (more than just their apportionments) in new churches, I think new churches would be able to offer these things back to old churches.
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