tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41520104916052164722023-11-15T10:41:12.951-05:00Urban MinistryDr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-67534201578380269962017-03-05T22:23:00.002-05:002017-03-05T22:23:48.363-05:00“Visitors, we want to make you feel welcome!”<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Recently I was worshiping with a church that still uses the
“forced meet and greet” where everyone is supposed cheerfully to greet other
attendees. Never mind that multiple studies have shown that guest, and many
members, hate this part of the service. It ranks right up there with those
country churches where the pastor tell guest to “stand up and introduce yourself
to us.” Well, at this particular urban church, the Minister who welcomed
everyone literally said, “Visitors, we want to make you feel welcome!” I could
barely believe my ears. First, he used that world that ministers should never
use, “visitors.” This is clear language to tell guest that “you” are not one of
“us.” </div>
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Second, along with using the “visitor” term, he actually
said that the membership “wants to make you feel welcome.” You simply cannot
“make” someone feel welcome,</div>
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<li>especially after the guest walked across the
parking lot without anyone speaking to him. </li>
<li>especially after the guest walked into the
building and past the greeters who was so busy talker to each other that they
neglected all guest who came to worship. </li>
<li>especially after the guest had to hunt for an
order of service, because the greeters did not hand him or her one, and God
forbid that the guest has to go to the greeter and ask for an order of service.
</li>
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sanctuary without anyone speaking to him or her. </li>
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ten minutes before the service started and nobody spoke to him or her. </li>
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With such an experience, how can the church now, through a
forced meet and greet, make these neglected guests suddenly feel welcome. Come
on church, you can do better than this and our Lord’s guests deserve better
from us!</div>
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The truth is that most of the older traditional urban
churches are closed and unfriendly. Long-term members rush to visit with other
members and greeters do not greet, because they too are talking to other
members. Sadly, most pastors do not know this, because they think there
congregation is friendly, and it is to the pastor. I suggest to pastor’s that
they have “secret worshipers” come over a period of 4-6 weeks and then report
back; in fact, some denominations will provide this service. I know that the Metrolina
Baptist Association in Charlotte, North Carolina provides this service for
pastors and churches.</div>
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My normal greeting when worshiper at a new church goes something
like this, “I am so excited that you and I get to worship Jesus together
today!” Recently during a “forced meet and greets,” I said that to a woman, and
she smiled at me and said, “That’s the nicest greeting.” I’m not trying to get
accolades here, but I am trying to cheerfully redirect attention away from the
awkward, forced, and despised “meet and greets” and back to the reason we show
up in the first place – to worship the Lord!</div>
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What is your favorite greeting to use when attending an unfamiliar church for worship? Please share it. </div>
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Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-85005949347621751012016-12-20T23:22:00.001-05:002016-12-20T23:27:28.657-05:00Church Outreach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Times change and church outreach methods have to change with
the times or they become ineffective. Churches unwilling to change their
methods of worship and discipleship will die, and the church’s death rate significantly
increases the more the church is unwilling to change. Likewise, the church
expedites its own death if it fails to modify its methods of outreach. What I
am talking about is church suicide. Churches become so entrenched in their own
personal preferences, no matter how ineffective in today’s society, that it
commits church suicide. It is reasonable to assume that our Lord will hold
those accountable who are unwilling to adapt their ministry for the damage
caused to the bride, the larger ecclesiastical church, unless sincere
repentance occurs. The problem is not God. He is still effective! Our Lord is
still on His throne and He is still working in the lives of His created! The
problem is that bold men and women willing to modify their outreach and style
of ministry are indeed rare, and possibly the reason that Jesus said in Luke
10:2 that the “harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.”</div>
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Through observation, I have concluded three essentials to
modifying the traditional church to becoming more effective in outreach. Now
don’t misunderstand, I am not saying that these are the only three things a
church must do, but every church must, at a bare minimum, do these three. Depending
upon the people who make up a particular church, there may be many other
neglectful habits and sinful behaviors that must change, but every church must
do these three items in order to be obedient and effective.</div>
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<li><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Churches
must move from paper to digital, with a current website to provide information
and advertisement on social media to help intrigue adults and youth with
relevant topics. Websites must be current, relevant, and contain the times and
locations of people orientated services and events. Social media can also be
used to advertise people oriented special events and promote weekly topics for
Bible study for relevant life topics. Advertisements are very reasonable on
social media and churches can reach a larger and more targeted audience with
social media than with print media. Technology can be used to teach a new song
being used in the upcoming worship, which both teaches the song and engages the
mind to think and prepare for worship. Encourage those in worship and Bible
Study to use digital media to advertise the event. If you ask worshipers to
send out a tweet to their friends, you will reach thousands of their friends
and it will not cost the church any money!</li>
<li><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Evangelism
must move from attracting to going; from the old in-home visitation to lunch,
home, and office visits. It is learning to meet people where they flourish.
Homes have become a place for a quick respite to renew and re-enter the urban
life. Adults spend more time in restaurants, bars, and coffee shops than ever before
and most are willing to discuss church and faith if engaged by a friend. A
growing number of churches budget funds for this type of evangelistic outreach,
especially for the pastor and staff to engage adults who have attended worship
or Bible study. Too many urban churches are dying because they are not out in
the community, walking with and talking with those who live and work in and
around their church. Learn the names of those who wait on your table, and ask
them if there is anything you can pray about for them. Let them know you care
about them as a person made in the image of God.</li>
<li>The
gospel presentation itself must be made simpler and used in worship at times
when the church has their largest number of guest attending – such a Christmas
Eve Candlelight services, which is a must for an urban church. One of the more recent
popular presentations of the gospel was developed by Lead Pastor Jimmy
Scroggins called “<a href="https://vimeo.com/96082854" target="_blank">ThreeCircles</a>." It was demonstrated for the Family Church in South Florida and it
may be viewed on Vimeo. This simple presentation is also explained as a Life
Conversion Guide available through the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/life-conversation-guide/id879490935?mt=8">iTune
app store</a>. Unlike Evangelism Explosion and many of the older evangelistic
tools, this approach is very simple to learn and use, and does not require a
lot of memorization. The three circles can be sketched on a napkin over coffee
or lunch, sketched in chalk on a sidewalk, or shown on your phone or iPad. </li>
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The fact is that people are still open to the gospel, and
they desperately need urban churches to be willing to share faith with them.
Often churches move out of the inner city to suburban areas for a variety of
reasons, but city dwellers still need Jesus and they are still open to a
conversation about spiritual matters. Cities need churches that are willing to
make a commitment to be incarnational in the city in order to reach urbanites
for Christ. This means that the church and its members are willing to remain in
and live among the people in order to reach them for Jesus. Urban churches will
face many obstacles, but God can enable them to flourish. Inner city churches
have a great opportunity and must accept the challenge to be biblical,
evangelistic, and relevant, and their members must work to be visible, viable,
and involved in urban living in order to propagate the gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If you have ever experienced an Asthma attack, you know the
agony of trying to breathe and get air into your lungs. Thanks to some of the
newer preventative medications, my asthma has been controlled for years and I
seldom have to use my albuterol sulfate inhalation aerosol, but I still carry
one with me at all times. As a pastor and educator, I like to keep up with various
worship styles and so today, I went to worship once again with a contemporary
church. This particular church has very load music, strobe lights, and fog
machines to the extreme. </div>
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Now I understand that throughout Scripture, God’s glory
filled the temple as a cloud (II Chronicle 5:14). Isaiah speaks of the seraphim’s
voices shaking the temple and God’s presence filling the temple with smoke
(Isaiah 6:4). In Revelation, John sees the temple being filled with smoke from
the glory of God and His power (Revelation 15:8). Today many churches try to simulate
or evoke the presence of God through shaking the building with load music to
the point that worshipers are provided earplugs, and then using various forms
of fog machines to fill the building with a misty fog to simulate the presence
of God. This is the same fog used in horror films and haunted houses at
Halloween to instill fear, which some people now experience in churches using fog
machines as they struggle to breathe.</div>
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Contemporary churches, in their attempt to inspire the
worshipers are bringing harm to the health of some of the worshipers they seek
to amaze. The church I was in today left the fog machines running for the
entire service. I was in the third back-to-back service of the day and the misty
fog was thick in the air throughout the service. It was not long until I was
having some difficulty breathing and was forced to use my inhaler. Five hours
have now passed since service ended and I am still having difficulty breathing.
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Contemporary churches need to rethink their constant use of fog
machines, load music, and strobe lights. Fog machines can have an adverse
effect on a person’s respiratory heath. Some types of fog machines are more
dangerous than other fog machines. One article that might help churches make
wiser decisions is found at <a href="https://www.uic.edu/sph/glakes/harts1/HARTS_library/smokefog.txt">http://publichealth.uic.edu/sites/default/files//public/documents/great-lakes/other/HARTS_library/smokefog.txt</a>;
of course, I would also encourage churches to Google “health dangers from fog
machines” and read some of the articles. Bright digital and strobe lights can
also trigger a multitude of health issues: Photosensitive epilepsy, migraines,
nausea, dizziness, and disturbed vision; just Google “health dangers from bright
strobe lights” or click this link for a fair discussion <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/safety/resources/aztopics/strobe-lighting.html">http://www.bbc.co.uk/safety/resources/aztopics/strobe-lighting.html</a>.
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A word of warning to contemporary churches, you should
considering the danger to your worshipers from the use of visual and audio
effects, and use them in moderation. If you do not, you are likely to become mired
in legal issues in the future. Contemporary churches should not only consider
the spiritual issues of using fake visual and audio effects to simulate the
presence of God, but they should also consider the health dangers their actions
present to their worshipers. If you love of your worshipers, you will want to
protect them from long-term health issues. </div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Not only
did <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Antioch church</b> regularly process
what God was doing, but also they<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
purposely joined in what God was doing.</b> </span>As the Christians at Antioch
looked around their multi-cultural city, they knew the church should reflect
this multi-cultural framework, and they were willing to invest in what we today
call “social capital.” <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Antioch
was a bustling walled seaport city of approximately a half million people. It
had theatres, coliseums, offices, stores, and government buildings found in
large cities today. The official language of the region was kione’ Greek,
although Syrian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and other languages were also spoken.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">These
early Christians were determined to reach their city for Jesus and equally
determined not to allow language, race, or cultural barriers to prevent the
spread of the Gospel. Oh, that today's church would have that same burning zeal
to reach others with the Gospel of Jesus! Do you understand that less than five
percent of American Christians have ever shared their faith with another person
in an attempt to lead them to salvation in Christ? The Antioch Christians knew
that God was at work in bringing people from all over the world to Antioch, and
they chose to participate in what God was doing. Not only did they make a
conscience decision to be evangelistic across racial and cultural lines, they
made a conscience decision to cross cultural and racial lines in order to
worship with those who were believers.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Friends, it’s
“heart-check” time. How important is it to you to reach across racial and cultural
lines for Christ? How important is it for you to worship with other races and
cultures? </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">It is
important that we realize that the Church at Antioch was an ethnically blended
mix of people from all over the world, and which represented God’s heart. </span>Understanding
God’s heart in this matter caused the church to desire to reach their city and
the world. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">This ethnically
blended church started what we today call the “mission” movement!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">God gave John
the revelator a glimpse into heaven and he saw a great multitude worshipping
God. Revelation 7:9 states, “I looked and there before me was a great multitude
that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language,
standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb.” Verse 11 tells us that
they all “fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God. Listen
my friend; our churches should be a foretaste of heaven.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Antioch Church
was willing to change in order to be involved with God.</b> Laying aside their
personal preferences, the Antioch church loved others enough to break with
tradition in order to worship God as one. With members from at least three
continents in their membership, the church ceased worship in Hebrew. No longer were
the language and past traditions their style of worship. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Baptist Churches have done a great
job at loving others on one level. We have loved others enough, literally to go
around the world to ensure that people hear the wonderful message of salvation.</span>
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">However, we have not loved others
enough to change our style of worship, so that we might worship with other
Christians from other cultures.</span> </div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Are you
willing to place a Latino and an African American on staff to help reach the
Hispanic and Blacks in </span>your<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">
</span>c<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">ity?</span> <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Are you willing to begin mixing
Black Gospel with Southern Gospel music? Are you willing to share leadership
with these other cultures?</span> <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The
Hispanic population in United States is the largest minority group. There are
now more Hispanics in United States than Blacks, and it is projected that
within the next thirty years the Hispanics will out number Whites in the United
States.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Notice who
made up the church staff at Antioch (Acts 13:1). </span>Barnabus was from Cyprus.
He was the Levite who sold his property and gave the proceeds to the Jerusalem
Church (Acts 4:36f). <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The
Apostle Paul was from Tarsus. Simeon was a Black Jewish Christian. Lucius was
from Cyrene in North Africa. Manaen was a politician and close friend with
Herod Antipas. </span>The Antioch church was an International, multi-lingual,
and multicultural congregation with staff representing three continents. So you
see, churches diversifying staff is not a new thing, it is an old truth, going
back past the Antioch Church to the heart of Jesus. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for “whosoever” will come. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">A couple
years ago, I was preaching at Charlotte Chinese Baptist Church in both their
English and the Chinese worship services. Afterwards I talked with then Pastor
Steven Wang, and asked him about the English service, thinking it was for
second generation Chinese-Americans. I fell in love with Pastor Wang when he
gave me his answer. He said God had convicted his heart and that of his church,
that they could not be a Great Commission Church if they reached only the
Chinese people. Oh, that God would give us more Pastor Wang’s and more churches
like the Charlotte Chinese Baptist Church. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">God longs
for His churches to have multi-cultural, international, and multi-lingual
staffs to lead multi-cultural, international, and multi-lingual churches. God
has been patient with His people for hundreds of years, but in these last days,
he is calling us back to an old truth. The Trinity is the DNA of the Church.
Where God’s DNA is, God’s people hear God and obey His teachings. Church staff’s
must diversify!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Now we
come back to the question I asked in Part I. “Why did the disciples miss the
miracle and the working of God?” The disciples missed the miracle and the
working of God because they did not take the time to process what God had done
in their presence. Dear Reader, Having read this blog, you are now faced with a
decision. Are you willing to process that which God is doing and seek to
understand God's purpose? Can you agree that <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">God is working a miracle by bringing the people of the world to your City
and State? Can you process the why of this social occurrence and understand
that this is a God thing? All Christians need to individually and collectively
pull aside with God and process this miracle. We need to be concerned about the
action of God in moving people around the globe and not focused on bounders and
the legality of this dispersion. Are you willing to join in and participate in
the mobilization of the masses though helping to care for and share Jesus with those
God is relocating? Are you willing to over-ride your personal worship
preferences to help others come to know Jesus? </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">If not, then you heart will grow harder. You will become more distant from
Jesus, and you will find it harder to recognize the next miraculous movement of
God.</span></div>
Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-91747878941007572572015-09-27T22:23:00.000-04:002015-09-27T22:23:03.006-04:00Spiritual Alertness To God’s Activity – Part I (Mark 6:44-52, Mark 8:17-21)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">God is at
work all around us and if we do not recognize God’s activity, we will have a
hardening of our heart, and find it harder to recognize Jesus and his work the
next time we encounter him at work. I challenge you to make a purposeful
decision to join what God is doing and to make the life changes required to
accommodate God’s activity.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Mark 6:52
tells us that the disciples did not understand God’s activity in the feeding of
the five thousand. Jesus raises this same issue again in Mark 8:21 when he
asked his disciples, “Do you still not understand?” Why did the disciples miss
the miracle and the working of God in Mark chapter six? Christians still
commonly make their mistake today. They had witnessed God’s activity, but they
were not alert to what God had done. You see, w<span>hen we witness God at work or have a personal encounter with God, it is
extremely important that we process the experience. If we do not, it </span>becomes
more difficult for us to see Jesus working, to understand what He is doing, and
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>One of the
reasons churches grow cold and uncaring is that the church seldom takes the
collective time to process the visitations of God. As a result, the member’s
hearts harden and they cease to be able to recognize the Lord’s presence and
work. God can move mountains all around the church and throughout the community,
but the church members eyes are blind and their ears deaf, because their heart has
become hardened and they no longer recognize God’s activity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>In the
early church, Christians were being persecuted, and as they fled persecution,
they carried the Gospel of Jesus to people all over the world. Since the turn
of the century, once again, God is using persecution, poverty, and hardship to
disperse millions of people. This time however, most are not taking the Gospel;
they are being dispersed in order to receive the Gospel. This is God is at
work, and Christians who are spiritually alert see what God is doing, and are
joining a growing movement to share their faith across ethnic and cultural
lines. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Just after
the turn of this century, Aero-flight airlines landed 3-4 times a week at the
SeaTac Airport in the State of Washington. At that time, there were 76 Russian
churches along the I-5 corridor. The pastors of these churches got together and
started taking the Russian pilots out to dinner and witnessing to them about
Christ. In a few short years, word came back about a new denomination of
churches in Russia called the Aero-flight churches. These Russian Pilots were
going back home and bearing witness of their personal relationship with Jesus
Christ and new churches were being born.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>About that
same time, a shipping container arrived in Seattle Washington with over fifty
Chinese in it. Three were dead, and the rest were placed in the INS Prison in
the Seattle area. Chinese churches quickly requested permission from the INS
Prison and were granted permission to visit and even to share Christ with these
Chinese. Eventually all of them accepted Christ as their Savior and wanted to
be baptized. INS permitted the church to baptize the new converts. Eventually all
of these Chinese were deported back to China, but they returned as Christians.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>God has
reversed the process he used in the first century, to win the world to him, but
his plan only works if we understand what he is doing and are faithful in
helping him. In the early church, God dispersed believers so that they might
carry the gospel to the far reaches of the world. Today, God is dispersing the
lost throughout the world that the lost might come to a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ. However, if this is going to happen, we must join God in
what He is doing just as the Antioch Church did in the first century.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>The Antioch Church regularly
processed what God was doing.</span></b><span> </span>They were excited about their faith, and they allowed
their faith in Christ to transform every aspect of their lives. The believers
were so different that a “new” word had to be invented to explain what God was
doing, and Acts 11:26 tells us that this new word was “Christian.” These believers
were representatives, ambassadors of the Jesus Christ. They were the hands,
feet, and mouthpiece of the Lord. These Christians knew what it was to draw
aside in prayer and meditation and struggle with God. They were accustomed to
observing God’s handiwork and they were accustomed to contemplating what that
meant for them as the people of God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;">They were
observant of what God did in Acts 2; they understood the significance of
Pentecost. They understood that God truly loves all people and longs for all
people to have a personal relationship with him. God must surely detest that
Sunday morning is the most segregated time of the week, and the church the most
segregated place. Listen to me, the DNA of the church is the Trinity. The
Sovereign God of this universe is so large and so unique that it takes three
Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit even to attempt to convey to our human
minds - His greatness. When God said, “Let us make man in our image,” he was
giving us a peek at His Trinity. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through each
culture, each race, each nationality, we learn a little more about God. God
wants all races and nationalities to study and worship together so that we can
draw from each other’s strengths. George Barna, in his 2009 research, compared
religious beliefs of the four largest groups in the United States: Whites,
Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians to that of the early 1990s. Compared to the other
three ethnic groups, Blacks emerged as the most likely to engage in each of
five church-related activities in a typical week: attending church services,
participating in a small group, attending a Sunday school class, praying, and
reading the Bible. They were also the most likely to have made a personal
commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life and to have an
“active faith” (i.e., attend church services, pray to God and read from the
Bible during the week). Barna concluded that “While the beliefs and behaviors
of America’s white population have changed little since the early 1990s, the
new research underscored that the faith of African-Americans is dynamic,
generally moving in a direction that is more aligned with conservative biblical
teachings.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;">George Barna
in his book, <i>In</i> <i>High Impact African-American Churches, </i>points out that Black
Churches are having a far larger impact on society than White churches. He
calls on White churches to observe and learn form our Black brothers. God is
calling the church back to what the Christians at Antioch already understood – we
have much to learn from each other.</span></span></div>
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I grew up on a farm in the foothills of the North Carolina Mountains.
In my mind, I can see the two branches where we often drank freshwater. I can
map how both branches flowed into the creek where we use to fish and play. I
moved away from the farm when I was 21 and I have never again walked back over
the entire farm. We closed the farmhouse when mother went into an assisting
living center in 2008. Mother died January 12, 2015 and my siblings and I are
in the process of settling the estate. While the house looks the same, much of
the landscape has changed. The grassy meadow where we use to pick blackberries
is now grown up in pine trees so thick you cannot walk through it. The bottomland
we use to farm has grown up in brush and would have to be cleared again before
any farming could take place on the land. The truth is that much of the
landscape is foreign to me. It looks different than what I remember and is very
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Similarly, the urban landscape changes around our churches. Like
the farmhouse, the church looks the same as we remember, but the truth is the
landscape has changed. The United States is the third largest country with
approximately 325 million of the world’s 7.3 billion people. This year (2015),
83% of the US population is considered urban. Our cities are more diverse than
ever before and a leisurely walk around the neighborhood will reveal many
places of different faiths and cults. This was not true in my childhood. My
friends were Black or White, saved or lost, and their religion was Christianity.
The county I grew up in had only one small Catholic church and until my late
teens I never new a single Catholic. Although I took Spanish in high school,
the only person I knew who spoke Spanish was the high school teacher who taught
it. During our second year of Spanish, we took a trip to a Mexican Restaurant –
65 miles one way to the closest Mexican Restaurant. Oh how the landscape has
changed!</div>
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God knew when the church you attend was planted that the
landscape would change. In fact, he knew then the diversity makeup your church
would need to reach in this present age. The question is, did you continue to
walk over the farm or did you move away and abandon your relationship with it?
To know the landscape means you have to live in the community, walk the hills
and valleys, and talk to the neighbors. People have to be more than a statistic
in a report. We have to now who lives in the houses in our neighborhood. We
have to know their hurts and pains, their hopes and dreams, and their passion.
Many urban churches are dying because the church lost touch with the changing
landscape, as I did with the farmland. While they may know the demographics,
they do not know the people the statistics represent. </div>
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Take the members outside of the church. Do a prayer walk.
Serve coffee and doughnuts on the sidewalk. Celebrate the community. Throw a
party and invite the neighborhood. Think of the effectiveness of the church,
not in bodies in worship on Sunday, but as the lives you are touching that are
being transformed. The apostles were not content to be inside a building
complaining that people didn’t come to them. Instead, they prayed, sought God,
and went to the people to with whom God was already working to restore. God is
at work in your neighborhood. He is at work in those the statistics represent.
He is at work in the residents’ hopes and dreams, hurt and pain, and their
passion for life. Most of them need Jesus and you are the one church and the
one person that can share Jesus with them. Just as God came and dwelt among
humankind, your church must be incarnational within its community or your
church will die, and many in the church’s neighborhood will die without
salvation. </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Will you accept the </i> Challenge?</u> Walk
down the street 500 feet in any direction of your church. Do you know the
people in the homes you walk past? Do you know their hurts and their dreams? If
not, I challenge you to learn these families. I challenge you to meet them
face-to- face and introduce yourself to them and start a relationship with them.
Not because you want them or their money in your church, but because you want
to love on them as Jesus would. </i></div>
Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-43053152000621551452015-03-20T21:47:00.002-04:002015-03-20T21:47:49.262-04:00The Millennial Generation<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The millennial generation will change the church. This
generation was born between 1980 and 2000. It numbers more than 78 million people
in the United States, making it larger than the Baby Boomers Generation of the
1946-1964 post WWII era. The shear number of the millennials tells us that this
is a generation to be reckoned with, and a quick internet search will reveal many
studies by a wide range of groups to see how this generation will affect everything
from the U.S. military to the church. This generation is the most studied and
the most educated generation in our nation.</div>
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Millennials were shaped by the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the
terrorist attack on our nation on September 11, 2001. They understand that life
is unpredictable and can end at any age. They place value in family, have great
respect for older adults, and want their lives to make a difference in the
world. This generation demands the church be missional, caring for others with
a hands on approach. This generation will not be content to give money for
someone else to go. They are looking for churches that are actively involved in
the lives and needs of both their communities and the world.</div>
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This generation can spot a fake. They want the church to be
real, which is frightening to many older Christians. Whereas my parent’s
generation fought through racism in this country and my generation pushed for equality
and diversity and are very conscious of it, the millennials do not see race at all.
Twenty percent of millennial marriages are inter-racial. Simply put,
millennials do not see skin color, and they are looking for churches that “do
not see” skin color, tattoos, body piercing, etc. They are looking for churches
that genuinely love all people as Jesus loves.</div>
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This millennial generation wants to make the world better,
to have a positive influence, to make the world a better place for others. They
are well educated and technologically savvy. They are never without their
mobile phones, as mobile devices place the world at their fingertips. Even with
a phone in their hand, this generation prefers texting more than talking. This
generation wants quality technology in the church to aid in worship and Bible
Study. Do not tell this generation to turn off their phones or refrain from
texting in worship. That is like shouting to them, “Get out! You are not
welcome here!”</div>
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This generation is largely unchurched. They see the church
as divisive, conflict-ridden, and irrelevant. Of those who are evangelical
Christians, you will often find a tremendous passion for Christ, but a hatred
of the traditional church. If asked, millennials will talk of the hypocrisy in
the church, the fake friendliness and the phony righteousness. They want people
to be real, and remember that I have already said they can quickly and easily spot
“fake” Christians.</div>
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This generation will change the world and are already doing
so. They are leaving traditional places of worship in droves leading to a rapid
decline and death of many traditional churches, some 8,000 – 10,000 this year.
The millennials that remain in church usually migrate to rapid growing churches
that understand them and that often stretch the Baby Boomer’s understanding of
contemporary. They gather in places of worship commonly painted black, smokers
and swirling lights electrify the crowds as praise bands and worship teams lead
in songs of praise. Pastors of these churches often do not even own a suit, and
preaching attire consists of blue jeans and a tee shirt. This is not the Baby
Boomers contemporary worship service.</div>
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You really need to understand this generation. They are
going to change the world. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Millennials: Connecting to America’s Largest Generation</i> written by Thom S.
Rainer and Jesse Rainer is the best book I know on the subject. It was written
to aid and assist churches in understanding what motivates this generation in
order that the church might win America’s largest generation to Jesus Christ. I
pray you will help reach the millennial generation and help them understand how
to have abundant life through Jesus Christ!</div>
Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-15260192854553802942015-03-18T21:23:00.000-04:002015-03-18T21:23:43.475-04:00What is it that attracts people to a church and does your church have it?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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do some churches grow while others wither and die? What is it that attracts
people to a church and does your church have it? How can you gauge your church
and its ability to grow?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First, growing churches have
a great spirit.</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Attendees consider the spirit and quality of the worship, Bible Study, and
fellowship vastly more important than its building. People seem excited to come
together to study and worship, and they seem genuinely concerned about other
people. These churches accept you for who and what you are right now. The idea
to “go and clean up your life” and then come to church is foreign to them.
These churches do not really care about how sinful you are or how many scars
you have. Guests must clearly feel that the church likes them and feel comfortable
with the people they worship and study with while in the church. People making
up these congregations know and understand that Jesus died for every person and
every sin, and Jesus alone can cleanse and make clean. If your church is not
like this, not only are you not a healthy church, but your church is like a
melon on a hot July summer day withering on the vine. Unless the Lord sends a
Holy Spirit breeze and a heavenly shower of grace, the church will die.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Second, worship is vibrant!</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The music speaks to the
heart and mind of the worshipers and is high quality. All attendees worship as
equals and staff works to remove all barriers that divide members from guest. The
music creates an excitement in the service and moves the worshipers into the
presence of God. Even the reluctant worshiper finds himself drawn into the
praise and exaltation of our Creator. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Third, the preaching must be
biblical, relevant, and understandable.</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The sermon must equally speak to the custodian and the CEO,
the saved and the lost, the righteous and the unrighteous. The message must be
applicable to people’s lives. Worshipers must feel comfortable with those
around them; no condemnation. The Lord does not see the tattoos, piercings, or
dress – He looks straight into the heart and mind. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fourth, there must be good
programs for families.</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
These programs must provide choices in programming and scheduling for all ages.
One church I consulted with started a second Sunday morning worship at 8:30 in
the same style as the later 10:45 service and saw overall attendance go up thirty
percent. Today’s adults and youth demand quality programs that are age
appropriate and relevant to life. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lastly, growing churches have
well maintained facilities with amble well-paved parking and ease of access.</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I worship in many different churches
of various denominations, and enjoy showing up unannounced when no one is
expecting me. Unbelievably, I have even found the main doors to the sanctuary
locked ten-minutes before service is to start, a quick turn-off for
worshippers.</span></div>
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I cannot underestimate the first three reasons churches
grow. Too many churches reverse the order and prioritize the facilities. While
today’s adults and youth want a nice place to study the Bible and to worship,
do not underestimate the importance of a great spirit, vibrant worship, and
preaching that is biblical, relevant, and understandable. Without the first
three reasons, the last two really do not matter.</div>
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Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-80320437375491267022014-09-21T14:51:00.000-04:002014-09-21T14:51:09.981-04:00Rethinking Church Anniversaries<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">At
the request of an urban pastor, I agreed to worship with his church with the
stipulation that he not announce my presence nor tell people why I was there.
The goal was to provide the pastor some “third party” feedback about my
experience. Some of which I am sharing in this blog in hopes of helping other
urban churches change their direction. Before I get to how the members reacted
to my “intrusion” into their service (I will save this for a future post), I
want to share how this church celebrated their seventy-fifth anniversary.</span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The
church had no screens, so the Sunday I was there all announcements were made
verbally. The young pastor spoke of their approaching anniversary with special
guest – a Barney Fife impersonator. Now for those who do not know, Barney Fife
was a town deputy in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Andy Griffith
Show</i> and later in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mayberry R.F.D.</i>
covering 1960-1971. Since I could not be present for the church’s seventy-fifth
anniversary, I asked a younger friend and colleague who lived in the community to
attend, and then share with me how she was received by the church membership. She
had never attended this church and I felt she could give me honest feedback. She
shared with me that the worship service started with a few announcements, a
welcome to the visitors, and one song sung acapella. Then the worship of our
Lord was turned over to the Barney Fife impersonator. A secular impersonator
(which my colleague rated as “not that good”) took the place of the preaching
of God’s Word.</span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><u><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Nothing
should ever replace the preaching of God’s Word</span></u></span><span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">! Worship is not about being
entertained. It is not about remembering a better time. It is not even about celebrating
our accomplishments. Church anniversaries are about celebrating God’s faithfulness
and provisions, and for painting the vision for the church’s future obtained through
the congregation’s obedience and faithfulness. If this church was going to have
an impersonator reenact past history, it should have occurred in the afternoon
or a weekday portion of the celebration. It should not have taken the place of
preaching God’s Word. It is time that churches rethink Church Anniversaries!</span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">According
to the demographics for the neighborhood where this particular church is
located, the aforementioned television shows had ended before 79.7% of the neighborhood
residents were old enough to remember Barney Fife and 64.3% were not even born when
the second show ended in 1971. The median age of this community is 34 and
ethnically a very diverse artistic district. The truth is that the church is
not reaching outside their walls into the community, and I am not sure they
want to reach their community.</span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><u><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Here
is what I would have recommended to the church</span></u></span><span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">, and will recommend that they
do it for their next anniversary. I would urge them to have a church sponsored
art show and music festival highlighting a diversity of musical groups and
styles of music covering the lifespan of the church to the present. I would
have community artist, vendors, and foods covering the main ethnic groups
within the community and arranged for all proceeds from the festival to go to
support a need in the community (e.g.: struggling single parents). I would pull
neighborhood groups into supporting the event to help meet this community need.
On Anniversary Sunday, I would make sure Sunday morning worship had youthful
greeters outside the building, dynamic uplifting music inside, and a powerful biblical
sermon outlining plans to influence our community for Jesus through loving and
caring for the people in the neighborhood. Celebrating anniversaries, whether
people or churches, should be more about looking forward than backward! Church
anniversaries should celebrate the faithfulness of God’s past provision and set
forth a future of trust and obedience enabling the church to continue reaching people
for Jesus and equipping Jesus’ disciples.</span></span></div>
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lack of vision. <u>Churches that are looking back at their glory days are not
looking forward to their glory years</u>. They are not seeking to reach their
community because there are convinced that people have changed and they alone
are right. The reality is that people have not changed. People are still lost,
still need a savior, and still need a personal relationship with Jesus. Too
many urban churches have simply lost their way through sin and complacency.
Unless these churches repent and seek God’s help in actively loving and caring for
people outside their buildings - in their neighborhoods and around the world -
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<![endif]-->Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-39433725691611482512014-09-01T16:47:00.000-04:002014-09-01T16:51:49.459-04:00Pastors and Churches Must Be Risk Takers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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God has always sought out men and women willing to take a risk in being
obedient to him, and I sense that this is especially true of the era we are
living in today. God is seeking men and women to be risk takers in these last
days. God is not seeking caretakers to maintain the status quo; he is seeking
those willing to take risks. If your church is going to influence the city,
both you and the church will have to take risks. Churches will not takes risks
unless their pastor takes the risk of leadership and leads the church to take
the necessary risks to impact the urban arena.<br />
<br />
Recently, I conversed with an urban pastor who told me that the average age
of his congregation was seventy-five year old; he continued to tell me that all
the church members wanted from their church was to be cared for until they die.
Do I even need to explain what is wrong with these members? We each have a
choice to make, and we can determine that we will be risk takers for God, or
caretakers waiting for the undertaker.<br />
<br />
You and I are living in a period in history that Christians and churches
must be bolder and possess a greater zeal for the things of God than previous
generations, and we cannot be easily discouraged. Cities are being lost to the
influences of Satan because the church is not being bold in taking risks.
Churches see the cross and shy away from it. Today’s church leaders seek safety
and security and their churches are following in their leaders footsteps. All
you have to do is look were the urban pastor lives. If he is not practicing
incarnation ministry, neither is the church.<br />
<br />
I challenge you in words of King David to Solomon, “Be strong and
courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged for the Lord God,
my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work …of
the Lord is finished” (I Chronicles 28:20).<br />
<br />
God is seeking churches that will be powerful and dramatically affect their
city and society with a biblical worldview, enabling their city to be a better
place to live and raise a family. If God has placed your church in the city, he
has done so for such a time as this, but it will require both pastor and church
to take risks. Jerusalem needed a Temple for the good of the city and the
nation. The same is true of your church. The city and the nation need your
church to be alive and strong! You must take the words spoken by David to his son
Solomon and be strong, courageous, and do the work. Only pastors and churches
with the character and faith of an Esther or a Solomon can change their city! I
pray you have such character and faith – the city needs you and the city needs
your church.<br />
<br />
Working in the cities of the world is risking and dangerous, but I tell you
that I would rather be in the worse place on earth and know that I am in the
center of God’s will, then to be in the safest place on earth and be outside of
God’s will for my life! The world’s cities need risk takers who are saved,
sanctified, and spirit filled. Without which you will be useless to both Jesus
and the cities. The world’s cities need leaders who are well trained, full of
knowledge and wisdom, and willing to take a risk and lead their church to
impact the cities of this world! The Lord will help you become all of these
things, but you have to want it! You have to hunger for it! You have to
prioritize your time and energy and make sacrifices! You have to be determined that
you will do the work, for there are no entitlements in God’s Kingdoms! God
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The design of church buildings in America have changed
drastically over the last two decades, and this is especially true of urban
buildings. Two main factors, cost and ministry drive today’s designs. While
cost is always a factor in all areas, the cost of land within cities makes it
very hard for churches to build new facilities. Ministries being provided
through urban churches have changed over the past two decades meaning that the
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people where the church is located. Urban churches no longer take the shape of
the traditional church. Instead of the traditional sanctuary, new trends call
for multiple use worship centers, often allowing less square footage overall and
better use of all of the churches space. Remodeling existing warehouses, big
box stores, and even old church buildings, new urban churches are moving in and
thriving.</div>
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New churches have more technology built in than ever before,
and it is crucial that church engage a lighting and sound company for advice
during the design phase. Many architects do not have the knowledge level for
adequately designing sound, screens, and multimedia, all of which are vital in
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interactions of members and guest. While churches are more accommodating of
infants and young children, adult classroom space is on the decline in newer
and renovated facilities as more discipleship and Bible Study groups are
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Whereas the Boomer generation looks at small urban buildings
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for doing ministry and nothing more; Boomers struggle with this mentality, as
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Caught between two centuries, born a Boomer and training
Millennial leaders, I find myself grieving the loss of theological architecture.
I miss the twelve steps “leading worshipers up into the presence of God” and
the beautiful stain glass windows, but I’ve always been a realist. Buildings
must be functional. While it looks pretty to have a bride and groom descend the
high steps and it makes for beautiful pictures, I have watched pallbearers
struggle with carrying caskets down them and the elder and physically
challenged struggle to climb up them.</div>
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It is a good thing that urban churches are reclaiming old
buildings for their use, and it is good that the design is being driven more by
ministry and cost. In this post-Christian age in America, churches must use
their limited resources wisely. Churches must remember that the apostles did
not build huge buildings for their memorials. Church facilities are just a
tool, a place for ministry, a place where people can still meet God. It is time
for us Boomers to get over it and see this new trend as a positive for reaching
people for Christ! </div>
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<![endif]-->As I consult with and try to help dying urban churches, I
have concluded that the main reason urban churches die is due to sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not that churches die of old age nor
spiritual attack from the unsaved public, churches are committing spiritual
suicide by refusing to deal with their internal corporate sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me be clear, churches commit self-murder
because of sinfulness and an unrepentant heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There appears to be four major sins that are paralyzing and killing
urban churches throughout America and the world.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">First, there is the
sin of partial obedience.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Urbanites
fear selling out to Jesus and attempt to walk in partial obedience, which is in
reality total disobedience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
churches do a lot “for” God instead of being in a personal relationship of total
obedience “with” Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the
emphasis is in doing, these churches measure spiritual growth by what one does
rather than whom one is in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
churches become cultish, exercising a “salvation by works” instead of by
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These churches commit the sin of
partial obedience, which results in the withheld presence of Christ and leads
to spiritual suicide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In First Samuel
15:12-23, we read: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Early in the morning
Samuel got up and went to meet Saul ….When Samuel reach him, Saul said, ‘The
Lord bless you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have carried out the
Lord’s instructions’…Samuel said to Saul, ‘Let me tell you what the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span> said to me last night.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Tell me,’ Saul replied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samuel said, ‘Although you were once small in
your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span>
anointed you king over Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he
sent you on a mission ….Why did you not obey the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord?’...’</span>But
I did obey the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord,’</span> Saul said ‘I went on the
mission the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span> assigned me….The soldiers took
sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in
order to sacrifice them to the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span> your God at
Gilgal.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Samuel replied:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Does the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span>
delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of
the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>To
obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of
rams…Because you have rejected the word of the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord, </span>he
has rejected you as king’ </i>(NIV). God does not honor partial obedience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until churches get real with God and walks in
full obedience, God will withhold his spiritual blessings and the individual
church dies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches are committing
suicide through partial obedience, and when the sin is pointed out, like Adam
and Saul, the finger of blame is pointed at others.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Second, there is the
sin of prejudice.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You simply cannot
go to heaven with prejudice in your heart. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For near twenty years now, I have worked with
people of all races and cultures and have a real heart for multi-cultural
ministry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My good friend, Rev. Dennis
Hall, once asked me what event transformed my life and made me want to be
reconciled with people of other races. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
reflected on his question and came to realize that this is how God works in the
life of every Christian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we allow God
to do his work, he removes all prejudices and causes us to seek reconciliation
with our brothers and sisters of all races, ethnicities, and cultures.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">This is exactly what John is
addressing in First John 2:9-11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in
the darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoever loves his brother
lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But whoever hates his brother is in the
darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going,
because the darkness has blinded him”</i> (NIV).<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">If the Church is to ever win this
world it must first seek forgiveness for the prejudice that separates it so
severely on Sunday mornings, lest the multitudes of churchgoers miss heaven
altogether (First John 4:19-20). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches
are not only segregated by race, culture, and traditions, they are divided by
denominational blindness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am reminded
of the Presbyterian Church down the street that refused to participate with the
Baptist church I served as pastor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
of the elders told me they only participated with three other Presbyterian
churches, and that they sure would not participate with a Baptist church. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we have a personal relationship with Jesus,
he will convict us of all prejudice in our lives and lead us to seek forgiveness.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prejudice knows no racial boundaries and
no race or culture has a monopoly on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Prejudice is of this world and not of God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America’s churches have proven this by developing
denominational prejudice, often voiced by mean spirited pastors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Third is the sin of
personal preference.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Urban churches are
dying, not for the lack of people, but because the membership holds onto its
sin of personal preference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanities
carnal nature causes people to develop personal preferences with no biblical
basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all have them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prefer a certain style of music, preaching,
and worship and you have your own preferences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Urban churches, much more than rural churches, must desire to worship
God with people who have dissimilarity preferences and be willing to let go of individual
preferences in order to worship with people of other cultures, ethnicities, and
social status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is God so limited that he
can only be praised with hymns, southern gospel, or contemporary praise?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is God so small that he cannot hear the litanies,
the benedictions, and the free prayers lifted in a multi-cultural
gathering?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does God require a
traditional organ and piano, or will he accept worship coming from a praise
band with flashing lights and a smoke machine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God is large enough and creative enough to receive worship from all
cultures and in a multitude of styles and format.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has no preference; he only wants to be
worshipped – truly worshipped. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches
that do not truly worship God will die, not because God wills it, but because the
church commits spiritual suicide.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fourth, there is the
sin of “religious capitalism.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
most churches, there is a desire to reach people to grow the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The capitalistic mindset seeks to operate the
church by selling religion for self-gains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Capitalism is only bad when it feeds greed, and greed is the root sin
imbedded in religious capitalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
the exact opposite of what Jesus modeled in his incarnate life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus did not reach people to grow the
synagogue or the denomination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
reached out to people to meet their need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While the ultimate human need is spiritual, Jesus loved all people and
met their human need in order to meet their spiritual need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through meeting the individual’s need, Jesus
touched the spiritual need within the person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dying churches, perhaps out of desperation to survive, reverse Jesus’
model at their own spiritual and very real demise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These churches forget that the greatest need
of a person is to have an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ; these
churches seek people to “come” to their church and help them grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The motive is for self-preservation, to bring
money in to pay the power bill, mortgage, and pastor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The need for survival blinds these churches
to the model Jesus lived out, a model of true servanthood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To further complicate the issue, these
churches often accept people into their membership who have already helped to destroy
other churches, ignorantly speeding their own death – by suicide.</div>
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Dying churches must look inward to find the answer to their
failure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not the fault of society,
of a godless culture, or the changing times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Churches die because church members allow sin to remain in their lives
and slowly poison the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Full
repentance is the start of revitalization for dying churches.</div>
Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-11139468299512547582012-10-25T16:36:00.003-04:002012-12-16T21:23:51.808-05:00Items that Hinder Church Growth: Lack of VisionI am appalled at the lack of vision within urban churches.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently, I sat in the sanctuary of an urban
church with a well-known pastor in our city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He shared about the mess the church was in when he came, spoke of the
growth of the congregation under his leadership, and pointed gingerly at
various parts of the sanctuary as he talked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After about fifteen-minutes I asked, “Where do you see this church in
five years?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He grew quiet, but
eventually said, “I don’t know.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
explored the topic with him in detail, but this pastor could not tell me any
part of a vision for his church or for his people.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
traveling throughout the country and talking with many pastors over the past
few years, I have noticed three distinct types of pastors.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first type</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is building his ministry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, many of today’s pastors are busily
building a self-made career, climbing the church and denominational ladder to
an empty throne of false hero worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These pastors have their groupies of younger pastors wanting to catch the
hero’s coattail on their way up the ladder too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As a young man, I followed this path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, in my late thirties, I grew to understand its vanity and God’s
desire for a greater relationship with me that transcended into so much more
than I could ever have gained on my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This type of pastor has but one vision, and he is the center of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the gospel is preached and God uses the
message to reach others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though the
motivation is wrong and the vision is self-centered, God can still use this man
to help save people.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The second type</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is reaching the community
for Christ and meeting human needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
stood in front of a church in Monroe, North Carolina with a pastor who pointed
north, south, east, and then west as he explained how the church had worked to
remove drugs and prostitution from their community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To hear this pastor talk, this was his
community and God wanted it cleaned up and rehabilitated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had presented his people a method for
reaching these goals, which included buying some of the neighborhood houses so they
could better control what went on in their community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His church was packed to overflowing as the
community responded to his love and care for their daily challenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a God-centered vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, this
pastor had a vision for his community and it was a God-centered vision with
people at its heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This man not only
preaches the gospel, he lives it and people's lives are made better and
eternally changed.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The third type</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of pastors has no vision for
the church or the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This type pastor
scares me and angers me at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God’s Word is clear, where there is no vision the people perish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet there are large numbers of pastors that
have no vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe this is
because being a visionary is hard work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Receiving
a vision requires spending much time in prayer before God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes face-to-face (F2F) time with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes God size glasses to look at a run
down neighborhood and see the “heaven” in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It takes a visionary to look at a drug-ridden section of the city and
see how God can transform the area, to look in the face of poverty and see the
potential for creating wealth, and to look in the penthouses of loneliness and
see joy and happiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visionaries are
needed in our cities across this nation and throughout the world, but
visionaries have to spend time F2F with the Heavenly Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visionaries learn to see through the Father’s
eyes what can be.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
pastor who is a visionary can move into the most hellish part of the city and
change it into a suburb of heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Visionaries are not fearful of the flames of hell, for they understand
the power of God to transform the bad into good, to reclaim the broken, and
when necessary to create out of nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If God has given you a vision for the cities, God will give you a
strategic plan to bring that vision into reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is a strategic planner, and He makes
stuff happen through his visionaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is no safer place in all the universe than being in the center of
God’s will, and no worse place in this life than being outside God’s will.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
do you do if your pastor <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4152010491605216472" name="SWPlaceMark"></a>is building his own ministry,
unconcerned about the real hurt and pain in your neighborhood?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What must you do when your pastor has no
vision?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pray and pray hard!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are living in the last days, and we do not
have time to be playing denominational games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We need to be about the Lord’s work of going throughout our cities and
making disciples and baptizing them in the name of the Lord Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pray for your pastor, pray for your church,
and pray for God to give you a vision for your city and the courage to help
make it become reality.</span></div>
Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-53671932210917638812012-08-12T22:42:00.001-04:002012-12-16T21:26:33.327-05:00Items that Hinder Church Growth: Leadership Failure to Respect Time<div class="MsoNormal">
Urban centers are fast pace with events happening all
throughout the city every day, and Sunday is no exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cities experience professional sports teams,
concerts, conventions, etc nearly everyday of the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This causes the avid fans to make a hard
decision, and sometimes the length of a service becomes the determining factor
for attending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some urban churches
become proactive in helping members and guest attend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One church I know located near a stadium
where professional football games often start at 1:00 pm, has timed their
worship to end at 11:30 a.m.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When games
are being played at 1:00 pm, they throw a big “tailgate party” in the parking
lot allowing worshippers to eat and still make it into the stadium for the
kickoff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Members and guest can attend
worship and not feel the need to skip church to make the game.</div>
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Churches can fight against urban social events, or use the events
to advance the cause of Christ, taking advantage of the event for outreach
opportunities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worship leaders need to
understand the urban mindset of worshippers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Churchgoers want:</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>worship and discipleship at times convenient for
them.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>accessible parking and ease of entrance, with no
waiting, lines, or delays.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>greeters, ushers, and staff that are polite and
efficient.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>their worship leaders to be well educated.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>up to date with use of technology in worship and
teaching.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>able to equip correctly interpret and mentor
Scriptural application to modern urban life.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>all worship and discipleship to be accessible
and high quality. </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>to use technology to communicate events and
happening in real time.</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>accessibility to staff 24-7</li>
</ul>
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In summary, churchgoers want convenience, quality, and
technology blended into services and training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pastors and staff want better pay, better working conditions, and
personal recognition, but often resist learning new technology, continuing
education, and “putting themselves out there” to meet the needs of city
dwellers.</div>
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Urban families have numerous demands that pastors should
take into consideration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Divorced
parents often are shuffling children back and forth between parents, many
people work on days of worship, and household chores demand much of the weekend
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of my wife and me, we
find ourselves squeezing in time with our adult children and their families,
household chores, and serving as power of attorney for my mother who is in the
later stages of Alzheimer’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When pastors fail to understand and respect the worshipper’s
time constraints, the pastor hinders the growth of the church. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Urban churches must creatively develop unique
ways to allow members and guests to worship and to experience discipleship
training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches must not make
worshippers feel bad when they are unable to attend a set time of worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key is to offer more worship times, not
less, to develop online discipleship training tools, and to create Bible Study
and fellowship times very throughout the week.</div>
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The problem with dying churches, especially in urban areas,
has more to do with church leadership making bad leadership decisions than any
other single factor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches can no
longer expect the faith community to fit restrictive preset times and structure
and must embrace flexible efficiency in order to experience growth.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So what do you do if your leadership
does not respect your time or makes you and others feel guilty that you cannot
make or stay for events? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First</b></span></i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, commit this issue to the Lord in prayer.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4152010491605216472" name="SWPlaceMark"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Continue to pray
until the Lord gives you a clear directive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Second</i></b>, talk with the pastor about your personal time
restraint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be truthful with both yourself
and the pastor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes the hardest
part is being truthful with oneself, but it is never easy speaking with the
pastor about such matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some pastors
think they have more to say than they really do, while others think that what
they have to say is more important than anything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third</i></b>, take the information gleaned
from your conversation with the pastor and continue to pray concerning it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Continue praying until the Lord gives you another
clear directive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fourth</i></b>, when the Lord speaks
to you, act on His directive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often the
Lord directs a person to leave their current church instead of creating a major
issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, God deals harshly with
those who raise their hand against God’s anointed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, you may discover that your
pastor is already aware of the issue and he may enlist you to help resolve the
issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this is the case, be patient,
change takes time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-27623585636576484132012-08-05T12:48:00.000-04:002012-12-15T22:16:15.250-05:00Items that Hinder Church Growth: Lack of Visibility and AudibilityChurches throughout the country are
loosing youth and adults due to the “decision makers” failure to modernize the
church’s technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s worshippers
want to see the speaker on a screen or large flat monitor, and the sound must
be crisp, clear, and easily understandable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Worshippers want quality that exceeds older “sound systems.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Youth and adults today have come to expect
high quality media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Audiences quickly loose
interest in media that is poor in quality, and often view it as laughable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sound and video projections should never
distract from conveying a quality service and message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet many church leaders fail to understand the
need for clear visibility of the minister and worship leaders, as well as clear
audible sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This requires some of the
latest equipment and properly trained operators. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Decision makers and worship leaders destroy
worship and eventually the church through a failure to understand that the congregation
of worshippers wants to hear and see what is taking place.<br />
<br />
One church where I occasionally worship
has such outdated equipment, but to complicate the problem, they seldom use
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a congregation or soloist is
singing, or the children are performing a play or musical, the screens are normally
used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, when the pastor starts to
preach the projectors are always off and the screens remain blank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worshippers are often moved by the facial
expressions of the pastor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The leader
conveys the seriousness of the message or the love of Christ through facial
expression that generally cannot be detected in larger facilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches that choose not to “magnify” the
pastor’s image deprive the listeners of much of his communication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a reason business deals are made
face-to-face and not over the phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pastors who do not allow their image to be magnified are faced with an
increased pressure to use the spoken word, as facial and body language are
removed from their ability to communicate.<br />
<br />
One woman shared with me how her
eyesight had diminished over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She said, “When the pastor preaches, I can’t see him clearly anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I focus on the large cross behind him; I
just focus on the cross and listen.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While there is a message in this woman’s statement, it is sad that this woman
could no longer see her pastor and his body language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is exactly what many churches do to the
worshippers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, this woman’s church
was able to install large screens and now she can once again see her pastor as
he preaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worship is more meaningful
to her in the waning years of life and she can see the love and care once again
in her pastor’s face as he comforts and encourages her through God’s Holy
Scriptures. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><br />
<br />
Contrary to popular belief, quality
sound, lighting, and media tools are not just for the youth – although the fog
machines might be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As people age, their
ability to see and hear usually diminish as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one reason baby boomers have aided
the sale of large flat screens and surround sound for their home entertainment,
and expect no less from their house of worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Younger adults and youth have grown up with the latest of technology,
and they equally expect their church to use the latest technology to enhance
their worshipping experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly,
this is a time in life when the Word of God is needed to comfort and sustain Christians
in finishing the race of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you
have opposed quality sound, lighting, and media in worship thinking it was just
for the youth, think again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone
likes to hear and see what the pastor and worship team is trying to communicate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great sound and visual aids, and yes even the
fog machines, is about getting the message of Jesus to the masses who need
salvation, discipleship, and comfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let us see what we can do to improve the communication in our urban
churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Sunday, take a different
look at how your church uses sound, lighting, projection, etc and see if you
can suggest to your leadership team how your church might improve worship.Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-16090036201973042242012-06-28T15:13:00.000-04:002012-12-16T21:25:16.516-05:00Items that Hinder Church Growth: Failure to use Digital Technology.One of the reasons many churches
are loosing youth and young adults is the misunderstanding of the “decision
makers” to adapt technology into the life of the church. The announcement below was lifted out of an
actual order of service in an urban church that I recently attended. <br />
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As I looked around the congregation,
I notice that this church had mostly middle to older adults in the service. I am fifty-five years young and try to stay
current with effective ministry trends.
If you see me in your service, <u>I will be using my modern devices.</u>
I am not trying to be disrespectful or discourteous
to others. I just want to reach people
for Jesus! There is a big difference
between asking people to “silence their data devices,” and asking them “to
refrain from the use of <u>all</u> electronic devices.”
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Even the
phrase “electronic devices” refers more to vacuum tubes and integrated circuits,
and clearly reflects an outdated understanding of today’s digital data technology.
Used properly in worship digital devices
can excite the congregation, be a great outreach tool, and help a church
grow. I use my Blackberry in
worship! In fact, my Bible is on my
phone. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Why would church leaders ever suggest that reading one’s Bible in
service is being discourteous to others?</b>
Digital Bibles are increasingly used by the masses today because it is
free and printed Bibles are expensive.
Fewer and fewer people own printed Bibles.<br />
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A few weeks ago in another church,
I watched as a man used his iPad during service. I watched as he followed along with the
Scripture readings, and then took notes as the pastor preached a dynamic
sermon. This was no more distracting to
me than if he used a printed Bible and a pencil and paper to take his notes. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What
pastor would not desire for his listeners to take sermon notes?</b> Some people even use their phones to make
digital recordings of the messages so they can listen to it again, or share it
with a family member who is unable to attend.
This bulletin announcement clearly shows leadership that is out of touch
with the people to whom they are to minister, and it is a clear turnoff to
youth and young adults. Failure to use
technology in the church is certain to lead to participatory decline and eventually
the death of the church.<br />
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Sometimes I use my phone to snap a
picture (no flash) and send in out to social media outlets with a note like
“this music is fantastic” or “the pastor is firing on all cylinders today”
followed with something like “ I sure wish you were here to enjoy this
service.” Smart effective pastors
encourage this in their churches. It
builds excitement, boosts attendances, and is one of the best methods of modern
outreach. Why do church leaders want to stifle
outreach and growth? Can you imagine the
number of people that could be reached if just ten percent of the people in
attendance at your service did this every Sunday?</div>
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If your
church is not using digital data technology in its worship and Bible study, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I challenge you to sit down with a group of
15 – 25 year old's</b> and ask this question, “How can we use digital data
technology in our services? Let them
brainstorm, share openly, and observe their excitement. Then ask them this question, “Will you help
our church do some of these things you just suggested? Again, observe their excitement! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don’t
you really want to find a way to use these wonderful ideas and excitement to
grow your ministry?</b></div>
Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-83253243154621389502012-06-10T21:16:00.003-04:002012-12-15T22:16:57.482-05:00Items that Hinder Church Growth: Lack of Properly Trained Greeters and Ushers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I sat with a
pastor in his office as he shared some of difficulties he faced in growing the
traditional church. He told me that some
of their guest had shared with him that the church was just not friendly. As we talked, I asked him if all the church
members were unfriendly. He acknowledged that they had eight to twelve people
who were friendly and outgoing. I
challenged him to appoint each of them as greeters to seek out guest and
welcome them with a smile, handshake or hug, and thank them for coming to
worship. He had never considered
appointing happy and friendly people to seek out new faces. I call these people greeters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The word
"greet" implies to meet, receive, welcome, cherish, embrace, salute,
address, or acknowledge a person in a specified way. Very early in church history members of the
church practiced greeting one another.
In fact, the Greek verb "</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;">aspazomai</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"
occurs about sixty times in the New Testament and echoes concern for the well-being
of the other person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The practice
of greeting arriving guests can be found in Mark 9:15, and upon the parting of
company in Acts 21:1. Every church should train competent greeters to welcome people
as they arrive and to thank them as they depart for every service and event. The team of greeters should have a Head
Greeter to organize the greeters and to make sure that the needed number of
greeters will be present for each service, properly located in key areas of the
parking lot and at all entrances. Men,
women, and youth can all participate in this “customer friendly” ministry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Greeters
should be the first to smile and to speak.
Greeters should call members by name, notice guests, and give special
attention to the guests. Remember, a
smile says a lot. Your words of welcome
will not be effective if you look unhappy to see them. The greeter should be one of the first people
to smile and express a customary welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Remember to be
very polite, open doors, and give directions to the place there are trying to
find – worship center, nursery, etc. Greeters
need to offer other assistance to the people as they arrive. This may be
opening a car door, helping an elderly person out of a vehicle, or perhaps
carrying the diaper bag for the parent of a young child who is struggling. When it is raining, be prepared to meet
people as they arrive with a large umbrella.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Greeters need
to be constantly aware of the parking needs and the needs of the attendees
while outside the building. If people
seem to need help finding a parking spot, the Greeter should direct the person
to an area where parking is available.
If a person has a flat tire or trouble starting the vehicle, offer the
appropriate assistance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Greeters are
the first impression of your church. If
you are friendly and knowledgeable, neat and well groomed, and polite and well
mannered, you make a good impression. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Here are a
couple of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">things a Greeter should not do</b>. Greeters should avoid antisocial behavioral norms. For example, in most areas, Greeters should
not smoke. Some people have strong
feelings about smoking, and you may turn them away from our church - treat all
church grounds and facilities as a smoke free area. Greeters should not be walking around
drinking a beverage. If you are holding
something in your hand, or have something in your mouth, you cannot do the
things needed to represent Christ and our church in an impressionable way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like the
Greeter<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, the Usher is a very important
individual.</b> Ushers represents Christ
at all times, impressing attendees with sincere and genuine hospitality. The Usher's primary task centers on the
worship services. Ushers must always smile
and speak a friendly word to others anywhere in the building. The Usher is to the worship service what
Greeter is to the arriving attendees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Head Usher
should organize the team and make sure that the correct number of ushers are
present for each service, properly stationed just inside of all entrances, and
that both male and female ushers are used for each service. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Usher is to
hold worshippers who arrive late until an appropriate time for them to enter
the Worship Center, such as during a song, to prevent multiple interruptions of
the service. Ushers should be cheerful
and polite when welcoming, seating, and instructing guest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Occasionally
the unexpected will happen. When it does
happen, the Usher must remain calm and act in a polite and thoughtful manner. A good usher will think ahead concerning what
to do if a certain situation arises. A
good Usher will plan for and know how to handle falls, fainting, and sudden
sickness. He will know how to call for
an ambulance, fire department, or police. The question is not if these things
will happen, but when these things will happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is the
Usher's responsibility to see that worship progresses smoothly and that the
worship leaders are not interrupted. If
someone faints, it is not the pastor's job to handle the situation. It is the Usher’s job and they should know
how to handle the situation. The pastor
and worship leaders are to lead the congregation in worship, few things are
more important than the worship of God. There
are very few, if any, reason an Usher should ever interrupt the leaders of
worship or the flow of the service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One emergency,
which few churches are prepared to handle, is fire. Ushers should know how to evacuate the
building. Have a plan in place in case a
fire should erupt. It seems that when I travel, the hotel I am staying in
always have a fire alarm either during the night or early morning. During a
stay at a resort in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the fire alarm was
triggered. The resort was well prepared
and I was greatly impressed by their preparation and evacuation procedure. I feel better about this particular resort
and I have highly recommended it to other people. It was nice to know that they were prepared
and knew how to help their customers exit the fifteen story building safely. Churches must be equally prepared. We cannot assume that since we are at church
only a few hours each week that we do not need to prepare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The one item
Ushers normally know about is the receiving of the tithes and offerings, and
yet it is often done awkwardly. The
pastor should teach the Ushers how to receive the Offering and explain the time
in the service where the offering will be received. He should be sure to reflect any change in
the normal routine. The pastor and
Ushers should develop the best procedure possible to receive the tithes and
offerings in an orderly manner as quickly as possible. Sometimes it helps to rehearse the
procedure. This should always be done
with new Ushers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At the close
of service, the Ushers should open the doors at the appropriate time - usually
at the close of the benediction. The
Ushers should locate themselves at each exit in order to share verbal
appreciation to the worshippers for attending.
Let the worshippers know that you are happy that they came to worship
God. The usher is God's mouthpiece to
say "thank you!"</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Greeter
and the Usher represent three individuals</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. First, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you represent yourself,</i></b> and you
should desire to make a good impression upon others. Secondly, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you represent the church</i>.</b> The church you serve expects you to represent
them well, and if you do not, they are disappointed. Third and most importantly, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you
represent Christ.</i></b> The greeter’s and
the usher’s friendliness represents the smile and touch of Jesus and makes the
worshipper feel the love of Christ.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Greeter
and the Usher both assist the pastor</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> by allowing
him and the other worship leaders to lead God's people in worship with the
peace of mind that whatever unexpected thing occurs, there are well prepared
capable Greeters and Ushers to handle the task.
These are extremely important jobs.
Do not take them lightly.</span></div>
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Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-39344151905766020322012-03-07T23:12:00.001-05:002012-12-15T21:57:10.287-05:00Items that Hinder Church Growth: Lack of Diversity of Staff<div class="MsoNormal">
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As an acorn grows into a mighty oak tree, there are signs of a growing movement of churches seeking to become multi-ethnic and multi-cultural. The Nineteenth General Synod of the United Church of Christ adopted the resolution “Statement of Christian Conviction of the Proposed Pronouncement Calling the United Church of Christ to be a Multiracial and Multicultural Church.” The North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church writes:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Multicultural Ministry is a vision of God’s diverse human family becoming a reality in The United Methodist Church. It is a vision of the church becoming a community of faith where all equally belong. It is a longing for a new spirituality; a new way of being, where all persons, regardless of race, ethnicity, or culture, can give and receive trust, forgiveness, love, support, empowerment, acceptance, and radical hospitality. It is more than simply making space for one another to exist, and it is more than tolerating differences [</i><a href="http://nccumc.org/multicultural/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">http://nccumc.org/multicultural/</i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">].</i></div>
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Yes, the acorns are sprouting and shooting forth their roots, but are churches and denominations willing to act to become more culturally diverse in their churches, or is this merely talk.</div>
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It remains disturbing to me that the visible church staff is nearly always the same race. Consider this scenario as you sit in church this Sunday. Four guests enter the worship center and take a seat near you - Robert White, Robert Black, Robert Latino, and Robert Asian. Your pastor preaches a dynamic sermon and the Spirit of God is moving throughout the congregation. The four guests seated near you all respond to the Gospel during the invitation. Which Robert has a Minister or Counselor of the same ethnicity to receive, discuss, and pray with him concerning his spiritual needs or the commitment he wants to make? Why has the church staff become the last stand for church separatist?</div>
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The lack of diversity among ministerial staff is one of the major hindrances to urban church growth. With more than two hundred language groups in the United States, the majority of which live in the major cities, it is crucial that urban churches be intentional about diversifying ministerial staff. Corporate and nonprofit boards seek a broad range of diversity, believing that it adds to their strength. Why then do so many churches believe that their church staff must all be of the same ethnicity?</div>
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As president of New Life Theological Seminary, I often ask our students if a builder can build a house using only wood. I remind the students that early American homes were called log cabins and were built entirely of wood. They had log walls and wood shingles, and were held together with notches and wooden pegs. They were neither attractive, efficient, nor comfortable. Today, we use a range of building materials to build homes - concrete, brick, stone, steal, wood, fiberglass, tin, glass, various cloth fibers, et cetera. We find that by using various building materials we have a much more comfortable and esthetically pleasing home. We enjoy having glass windows and fiberglass shingles. We find that homes are more decorative with stone, carpet, and paint. By incorporating the variety of building materials modern houses take on their owner’s personalities and become better places to live.</div>
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In the same way, you can establish an ensemble with all trumpets, but the sound will be very limited. However, if you add Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses, Flutes, Piccolos, Oboes, English Horns, Clarinets Bass Clarinets, Bassoons, Contrabassoons, French Horns, Trumpets, Trombones, Bass Trombones, Tubas, Harps, Keyboard/Piano, and Timpani and other percussions instruments you have a effervescent orchestra. God wants a full orchestra of worshippers, and yet our churches continue to be an ensemble of trumpets.</div>
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This past week Pastor Steve Wang, Pastor of the Charlotte Chinese Baptist Church, visited with me in my office at New Life Theological Seminary. The church is starting an English speaking service. As he explained to me their reasoning, he reflected that God had shown them that they could not fulfill the Great Commission if they only ministered to the Chinese people of our city. The English speaking service is not just for English speaking Chinese; it is for all English-speaking people of Charlotte. I am so exciting and hope to help them in this venture. I do not know of another ethnic congregation in Charlotte with such a vision. This church is attempting to go where very few have gone before, and their pastor is asking if I will agree to preach on multiple occasions to help them reach non-Chinese English speaking residents in their area of the city. He has even asked if I will administer Communion; I am so amped!</div>
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The urban face of North America is changing as the peoples of the world rush to claim greater prosperity in the United States and Canada. For urban churches in North American to survive, they must diversify their staffs and reach people of multiple ethnicities and cultures; this is also true of urban churches of all countries around the globe, although the challenges of doing so may differ slightly.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So how do you help move your church to diversify its ministerial staff?</b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>First</u></i></b>, let me be very clear, you do not terminate ministerial staff to bring about diversification. This may take some time to accomplish, but remember that Church staff members leave for a number of reasons, and when one leaves, the church should be deliberate in seeking a person of a different race or culture than the majority of the membership. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Second</u></i></b>, the church should seek a staff member that is representative of the next largest demographic within the church community. Cities are alive and neighborhoods change and shift demographically. Churches must change with the demographics of their area or cease to be effective in their community; ineffectiveness usually leads to the death of the church within a quarter century. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Third</u></i></b>, the church should be prayerful in seeking all new staff persons. Race or culture should never be the main priority. If you need to hire a Latino, seek a Latino that will be the right fit. We are each more than our ethnicity and to be a good fit in ministry we must have a deep personal relationship with Jesus Christ, a deep love of people, and the education and training that properly equips us to perform the required job. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Fourth</u></i></b>, when the church calls a new staff member, love and accept him and encourages others to accept him. You will witness God’s mighty hand at work within your congregation, as God builds a mighty orchestra and multiple cultures learn from each other concerning the Sovereign creativity of God. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Fifth</u></i></b>, praise God for the many new truths you learn through experiencing a greater diversity in your church as you worship God together.</div>
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Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-80212114105510331782012-02-16T06:13:00.000-05:002012-12-15T21:57:39.481-05:00Items that Hinder Church Growth: The Invitation<div class="MsoNormal">
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One of the greatest hindrances to urban church growth is the lack of proper invitations. Most urban churches do not know who to help the worshippers respond to the message of God as delivered by the “preacher.” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ministers should carefully consider five specific items related to inviting the listener to respond to the message of God.</b> I am a firm believer that every message, if it is from God, should provide the listener the opportunity to respond. Every invitation to respond to the Gospel message should be thoughtful and executed properly. This idea is not original with me, but is something I picked up at a conference some years ago. I implemented it and saw conversions and rededications nearly double. I believe these four simple items will help urban church growth.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">First</b>, when a pastor gets up to preach God's Word, he should read the Scripture which is the basis for the message he is going to preach on, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">offer a pre-invitation</b>, and then pray a pre-introductory prayer. At this point, the man of God is ready to go into the introduction and message. The message should work to a conclusion, prayer, and invitation. Why should every sermon have a pre-invitation? When the man of God shares the pre-invitation, the Holy Spirit begins immediately to work hearts in minds toward the proper decision. When I give a pre-invitation, it starts something like this, “At the close of the message this morning, you will be asked to make one of two decisions.” I then explain the decisions the listeners will be asked to make, whether it is for salvation, rededication, church membership, et cetera. The listener knows the message is going to end with a call for a specific decision. All through the message, the listener is thinking about the decision they are being asked to make, and all through the message, the Holy Spirit is at work. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Second</b>, when the message concludes<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, the one who delivered the message must extend an invitation to the listeners.</b> The one who delivers the word of God should be the extended of the invitation and the key recipient of those responding to the invitation. Other pastors or staff may assist, but the one proclaiming the Word of God should be front and center to receive those responding to the message. Urban ministries should have an array of cultural diversity visible during the invitation. These can be ministers or lay counselors of another race who also come to stand at the front, and this is very important to build cultural diversity. He should not be holding a hymnbook or singing the invitational hymn. He should be prayerfully focused on the congregation, looking for those the Holy Spirit is working with so that he will know how best to encourage obedience. I usually stand with arms outstretched, slightly lowered, with hands turned up. This position is inviting and presents fewer barriers to the timid and hesitate listener who may be under conviction of the Holy Spirit.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Third, do not rush the invitation</b>. Most people will not respond until after the third verse of an invitation hymn. Most people respond during the fourth verse. I do not claim to know all of the reasons for this timeframe, but perhaps it is to build the courage to walk to the front to take a stand for Jesus. When ministers end the invitation at the close of a second verse, they hinder people from making life-altering decisions. Likewise, if no one comes after the fourth or fifth verse, end the invitation by letter the congregation know that you are available after the service to speak with anyone wanting to discuss a spiritual issue.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fourth, invitations should be inviting</b>, but integrity demands that we not use manipulation. Musicology helps the minister understand the proper use of music during an invitation. The worship leader must give careful attention to make sure the music is not too loud, distracting, or irreverent. It is also a good idea to have trained counselors ready to assist with those who come forward. When I first started really taking the invitation seriously, I found I often had more people responding that I could handle. I had to learn to hand the off to trained lay counselors to spend the amount of time they needed. You should know that if a line forms, it deters others from coming forward. You might also ask your deacons or elders to come forward during the invitation to kneel and pray at the front. Often the timid find it easier to start walking toward the front when they see other people moving. Evangelistic services held in large stadiums use this method very effectively. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fifth, the minister must help the congregation understand that the invitation is the most important part of the whole service.</b> The invitation is where the worshippers make life-changing decisions. It is where God does His work. Up until this point, others have been doing the work. Musicians have played the instruments. Singers have led the worshippers in song. The pastor has preached the Word of God. Now, God does His work and we behold His glory! When a person accepts Jesus as Lord, this is the work of God! When a marriage is mended, this is God working! Ministers must help the congregation understand that the invitation is a sacred moment when God is most visible in the service. This is not a time for members to start leaving. I usually ask people not to leave unless it is an emergency, and tell them that if they leave the ushers will assist them with the medical emergency they are experiencing. Thoughtless members often hinder God’s work by leaving during the invitation.</div>
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Recently I went to worship with another urban church. The pastor did not give a pre-invitation. The invitation was not well thought out nor focused; it seemed he aimed at nothing and hit it. He stood at the front holding a hymnal and singing along for the two-verse invitation. The invitation was not inviting. In spite of the diversity in the congregation, there was not diversity of leadership at the front to receive those wanting to make decisions. During the short two verses invitational hymn, I observed no fewer than twelve people exiting the worship center. I found myself wondering if they were responding to the invitation by rejecting the message. Despite the pastor’s education and training, this minister did everything wrong in extending the invitation. I was not surprised that no one responded to the message. It was a worshipful service, but a thoughtless invitation. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Many urban churches flounder and decline, not because of inadequate music or inarticulate homilies, but from the inability to extend an invitation to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.</b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So what do you do if you discover that your church is not properly giving attendees the opportunity to respond to God’s message? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> First</b></i>, commit to serious prayer about the issue. The offering of an invitation is the responsibility of the Pastor and you must be very careful not to be critical of your pastor. The fact is that many pastors did not receive proper training in seminary concerning how to extend an invitation<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4152010491605216472&postID=8021211410551033178" name="SWPlaceMark"></a> in the most effective manner. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Second</i></b>, talk with your pastor about your concern in a nonthreatening manner. Assure your pastor that you that your discussions are confidential and that you are not being critical of his method, but ask him if you can explore ways to improve the effectiveness of the invitation. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third</i></b>, share the items in this observation with your pastor as discussion points and ask him if he believes they are relevant for the church. It may just be the spark for prayerful thoughtfulness on the part of your pastor in focusing on making the invitation most effective. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fourth</i></b>, if you receive a negative reaction from your pastor, back off and commit the issue to prayer. Ultimately, the spiritual responsibility of leading the congregation falls on the pastor and God holds him accountable for his leadership of the local church. </div>
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Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-39016470468114329652012-02-12T19:09:00.010-05:002012-12-15T22:14:27.532-05:00Items that Hinder Church Growth: Guest vs. Visitor<div class="MsoNormal">
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<![endif]-->With this blog, I begin a series of at least ten
observations that hinder growth of many of our urban churches across our
nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As president of New Life
Theological Seminary, I find myself in other churches more than in the church
where I am a member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has allowed me
an opportunity to observe urban churches in various cities and draw a number of
conclusions that I believe can help churches experience greater growth in
members and revenue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These steps are not
culture or denomination specific and are applicable to all churches.</div>
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Churches often make a crucial mistake by the language chosen
to recognize non-members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pastors set
the tone on this, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">churches must
decide if they are going to have “visitors” or “guests.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These two terms carry unique differences to
the non-member and determines the likelihood of the persons return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many times have you heard a pastor
welcome visitors to worship and then introduce a non-staff preacher as a “special
guest”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can the difference be any more
obvious?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visitors are those people who
stop unexpectedly by our homes trying to sell us vinyl siding or check our roof
for storm damages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did not invite them,
they are an inconvenience to us, and we really do not want them in our
homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guests are people we invite and
provide hospitality at our expense, they are not an inconvenience, and we want
them to enjoy themselves and to come back again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>When non-members stop in for worship or a
special event, they quickly determine if the church views them as a visitor or as
a guest</u>.</div>
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First impressions are important and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">every church interested in reaching people should have friendly and welcoming
signage.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people who are new in
a city find a church by checking the Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every urban church should have a website and an outdoor sign, and both
should be user friendly and informative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I recently checked a church’s website to see what time they met for
worship, the church had only a one-page website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The page told the location of the church,
which streets it bordered, the age of the church, and even how many parking
lots they have, but it did not list any services or times of service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be much better to have a one-page
sight with the church address, phone number, weekly worship and discipleship times,
accessibility, and the closeness of the city bus stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, the church should have lighted
exterior signage with key service times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All marketing tools must convey a genuine warmth and friendliness of the
congregation and staff.</div>
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As worshippers drive in, it is crucial that they quickly see
a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sufficient number of properly marked guest
parking spots close to the building.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only handicap spaces should be closer to the building entrances than
guest parking should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pastors and staff
members are servants and can easily adapt to spaces far away from the
building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is seldom justification
for having reserved spaces for the pastor and staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ministers who possess a servant’s heart will
not ask for or accept special treatment when it comes to parking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel so strongly about this that it would
be difficult for me to join a church where the church had a “Reserve for
Pastor” parking spot, and I do not believe I am alone on this issue.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Every urban church
should have well trained greeters.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These men and women should be knowledgeable about the church and able to
assist guests with directional information concerning easiest accessibility for
their individual or family needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Greeters should be friendly and truly excited to have guest arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember one person who used to say, “Seeing
you just made my day, I am so glad you are here!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key is that this person was speaking the
truth and was genuinely glad to see guest arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greeters should be observing people parking
in guest spaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This allows the greeters
to give immediate assistance and instruction to the guests, and it discourages
members from using the space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One word
about this, if you have members parking in guest spaces you have to confront
them and address it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Selfish members who
park in guests parking spaces can intentionally or unintentionally hinder a
church from growing – lovingly confront it head on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that does not work, there are always tow
trucks.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The exterior of the
church should have clearly marked entrances.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guests are generally looking for one of two
immediate identifiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most guests
attend worship before any other service, so it is most crucial that the
sanctuary be clearly identifiable from the outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many churches have “Guest Information
Services” located near the sanctuary or main entrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Observe the two pictures below and see if you
find one more inviting and informative than the other.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leadership should
never single guests out during a service or event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Never ask guests to raise their hand,
stand, or even remain seated during the “greet and meet” as it singles guests
out and makes them feel uncomfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
recall one church where a pastor pointed out the “visitors” and had us, as
visitors, to stand up and introduce ourselves to the church family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being a minister, I am accustomed to churches
having poorly trained leaders, so I stood up, and introduced our family by name
and told the church we were from Charlotte, NC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pastor then pointed to another couple and said, “Sir, would you stand
and tell us where you are from and introduce you and your wife.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man stood and told where they were from
and introduced both himself and the woman with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then concluded with the words “she is not
my wife.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This pastor exposed an
unmarried couple who were vacationing together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do you think they ever went back to that church again?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Churches should
develop methods of obtaining guest information through nonintrusive
embarrassing methods</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a pastor, I
liked to have a tear off section on the order of service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We called this the “Communication Form” and used
it to register attendance in worship (members and nonmembers alike), to request
prayer, to share pending surgery or hospital visits, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While some people will choose not to
participate, I have never had anyone complain about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked all worshippers to place the forms
in the offering plates as part of the attendees offering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another good method is to design an in
chair/pew two-sided multi-use envelope that allows guests and members to give
an offering and share information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
methods do not single out guests, and they treats all worshippers the
same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Train all of your ushers and
greeters to “meet and greet” with non-condemning phrases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My personal favorite is, “I am thankful that
we can worship together today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
believe we have met, my name is Eddie.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In large congregations members seldom know everyone, so never assume
that a person is a member or guest.</div>
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Regardless of the message used to collect information from
attendees,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> it is vital that someone
follow up with all identifiable guests within 24 hours.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a pastor, I received this information from
the ushers and called our Sunday morning guests that same afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our church developed well-trained greeters
and ushers and had collection of information down to an art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We developed a “seven touch” approach for
responding to our guest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along with a
quick call from me as pastor, I also sent a letter out on Monday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time the guest received the letter
they usually had already experienced a “front door” visit, a small gift, and a
sincere heart-felt “I am so glad we could worship Jesus together Sunday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do hope we can worship Him together again
real soon.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In communicating with
guests, always avoid language that separates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Churches and first responders too often use language that communicates a
clear partition between members and guests.</div>
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<u>Guests are smart and easily detect sincerity and
hypocrisy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches cannot fake a desire
to be inviting</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pastor should ask a few people who are
“outside the church” to</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">come and </b>worship,
and ask these individuals to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">observe and
provide honest feedback to the pastor on whether the church made them feel like
guests or visitors.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, you
can also make an observation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think
about how your church treats non-members and share your information with the
rest of us.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So what do you do if you
discover that your church is treating non-members as visitors rather than guest?
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First</b></span></i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, repent both individually and corporately, and ask God to
help you and the church to love people more<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4152010491605216472" name="SWPlaceMark"></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Second</i></b>, talk with your pastor about
your concern and see if he is willing to have you and a few others perform a
hospitality audit to see how non-members are treated and how they perceive the
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pull from the securely
hospitality industry a small group to perform this audit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Assure your pastor that all findings are to
help improve the church and its image and is in no way a reflection on
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third</i></b>, using the
information gathered through the VIP audit, share the items in this observation
with your pastor as discussion points and ask him if he believes they are
relevant for the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bet he will
be excited that you want to help the church grow and to improve its image to new
people attending the church for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fourth</i></b>, be prepared to receive some negative reaction from some
of the members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When this occurs, commit
the issue to prayer and keep moving forward making the improvements
needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches can learn much about
hospitality from the secular world, so do not be afraid to enlist people in
your church or community serving in the hospitality industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most important VIP is the first time
guest!</span></div>
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Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-30582982553186894772011-11-23T22:55:00.000-05:002011-11-23T22:55:19.430-05:00The Biblical Multicultural Church<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]-->Are you looking for a biblical church? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does a “biblical” church look like? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does a biblical church teach? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can you know if you are part of a biblical church? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Great Commission found in Matthew 28:19-20 gives us our first clear directive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this passage, Jesus tells all believers to “go and make disciples of all “<span style="font-family: Symbol;">eqnh</span>” [eth-nay] from which we get the word ethnic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the New Testament, the word usually means “nations” and refers to everyone who is not a Jew. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the meaning does not stop with race; it includes all people groups who do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truth of the Great Commission, not immediately realized by the disciples, is that Jesus opened Salvation to all people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With these words a new era began in which all nations now share in the salvation of the promised Messiah. <div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Biblical churches make disciples of all races and ethnic groups without distinction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some mistakenly believe the Great Commission sends Christians out to evangelize the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Correct exegesis commands Christians to go to the ethnic groups and cultures of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the city, it is easier to disciple ethnic groups and cultures, baptize them, and mentor them to obey all Scripture; this is especially true during their first year in a new city. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baptism is the outward symbol of one's inward decision to “obey everything the Lord has commanded” and is the foundation for one-on-one mentorship. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great failure of the urban church is its lack of discipleship and mentorship. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Corporate praise and worship are important, but without comprehending the foundational teachings of our Lord, the construction of one’s faith crumbles as the allegorical house built upon the sand.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Biblical churches make disciples, are multicultural, and mentor believers.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These believers then go out, make other disciples of all people groups, and mentor them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church incorporates multiple cultures as part of its ministry, and embraces and celebrates the different cultural groups. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biblical churches do not relocate, but rather transitions as their communities’ transitions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wal-Mart does not build different stores for Blacks, Whites, Hispanic, and Asian, nor would the public support any company that did, and yet separatist churches exist throughout our urban centers and believers continue to support this unbiblical action.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Urban centers around the globe are multi-ethnic, with each homogeneous unit having its own subculture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charlotte North Carolina (where I live and minister) is the eighteenth largest city in the United States. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only forty-six percent of its residents were born in the State of North Carolina. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charlotte is the sixth largest city in the migration of people in the United States. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twelve percent of its residents were born outside the United States and there are 660 airline flights daily in this city. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People are on the move and urban churches have to learn to thrive in an environment where needs are great, resources limited, and the people are transient.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Wal-Mart designs its stores and develops its offerings to attract transient ethnicities and cultures to spend money in their stores. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The early Christian church effectively engaged transient ethnicities, made disciples and mentored them, and as the disciples of Jesus moved throughout the world, the gospel spread. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first century church turned the world upside down. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul went to the urban centers because that was where large he could disciples the largest numbers of people from many different cultures. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jew and Gentile, Asian and African, rich and poor all came together in the early Christian church – this was the biblical model given to us in Acts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The early church reflected the teachings of Jesus and the Great Commission.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Motive is always important to God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many denominations have long adhered to the homogeneous unit principle for evangelism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make the argument that multicultural churches are not necessarily better or more spiritual than mono-cultural churches and that multi-ethnic churches often find it harder to reach people for Christ. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New Testament does not support the homogeneous unit principle and it is not what Paul practiced. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New Testament Church consisted of believers from several cultural origins. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It consisted of believers of wealth and poverty, and educated and uneducated, young and old joined to worship God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is still true today of a biblical church. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aim of church growth is not how many people we can assemble on Sunday morning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aim is to see how many disciples the church can create in partnership with God. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So what do you do if you discover that you are not in a biblical church? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First</b></i>, commit to serious prayer about your church.<a href="" name="SWPlaceMark"></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Admit to God that the church is unbiblical in its practice and is not conducting itself like a first century church and confess your part in the church’s unbiblical behavior. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Second</i></b>, talk with your pastor about your need to be part of a multicultural church that unashamedly makes loves other cultures and seeks to disciple them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third</i></b>, pull together like-minded people and begin making disciples, baptizing them, and mentoring other cultures. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visit the Wal-Mart closest to your church and notice the people groups and cultures represented in the store; the shoppers should be representative of your church congregation, and if not there is much work to do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fourth</i></b>, if negative tension develops with other members, support your pastor in dealing with it immediately. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches cannot move to being a biblical church if ungodliness and disobedience exists and your pastor will need your support in correcting overt disobedience, which can be messy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fifth</i></b>, intentionally diversify the leadership and staff of the church. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important for other races and cultures to see “like faces” in the worship service and other church events. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Churches can make this change when vacancies naturally occur or when the church adds additional staff, but urban churches should not remove existing staff to create diversity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Purposely removing staff to create a diversified staff is always counterproductive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Be patient, change takes time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, working together believers can move the Church to a more biblical foundation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you will be a part of this great movement!</div>Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-83868566449637530342011-11-07T11:44:00.000-05:002011-11-07T11:44:33.946-05:00Dying for Change<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The de</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">aths of churches are becoming so normal that few people are surprised anymore when another urban church closes its doors. It is easy to spot the signs of a dying church. Dying churches stop having adult converts. Dying churches focus more on telling others how to live than in being church. As the congregation dwindles, buildings deteriorate, as the small group can no longer afford properly to clean and preserve the building. All of these are visible signs of a dying church, but are merely an outward sign of a much deeper internal issue. The truth is that many churches are dying for change.</span> <div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Carnality resists it, but God demands change. Obsolesce is unnatural, so contrary to the nature of God and that of humanity. God created us to progress, to grow, and to transform; and yet, our carnality resists God's design with a fierce determination to make us obsolete. Perhaps this is why I have always enjoyed the more whimsical translation of First Corinthians 15:51 first triggered in me by a sign hanging in a church nursery. I think it's placement by a person who knew the challenges of carry for babies and who had a sense of humor. The verse states, “We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Why is it that urban churches resist change? Change means the church is a living organism; churches are either changing or dying, and even death is a process of change. God created humankind to change, to be renewed, and to become more like Him, so there is no wonder that our old nature resists change. The new person believers become in Christ seeks and requires a change. God tells us that we are to experience the renewing of our minds on our way to becoming “new” creatures; this involves a change. The church must reflect the change God performs within each believer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At best, dying churches reflects a disobedient membership and at worst a spiritually dead membership.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sometimes the more humane thing to do with a terminally ill animal is to “put it out of its misery.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, if you are among the disobedient or dead within a dying congregation, you may be searching for some ways to go ahead and put the church out of its misery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those churches that do not like change and resists regeneration, it seems proper to give some ideas on how to become obsolete quicker so the wayward church can die faster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Understand that it is hard work to kill a church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To kill a church you have to resist the love and power of God and then partnership with Satan to destroy a part of the bride of Christ.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">First, the dying church must firmly resist God’s living breathing power within its members.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how much God wants the membership to become like Him, you must resist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will require you not to accept Scripture as authoritative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will require you to withdraw from fellowship from other churches within the faith community; after all, Satan does not want you to work with other churches and denominations to reach our cities for Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Second, the dying church must develop a mental resistance to adaptation needed for change. </b>Fight against all new ideas. If you have never done it that way before, be determined not to do it. Members must resist learning new songs of praise and adoration, new musical instrumentation, and new worship formats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, the church must stop being a church of prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The urban church cannot resist change if it is strong in the Word of God and open-minded in the worship of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Third, the dying church must develop an unwillingness to grow and develop. </b>Learn to look backwards, relive the glory years, and talk about the “good ole days.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carnality longs for the comfortable and the familiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church is to be a change agent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus wants His bride to be creative, beautiful, and alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever watched a young bride?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She may be scared at the thought of leaving all the comforts of her parents and beginning a new life with her husband, but she is also excited about the possibility of this new life on which she is embarking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church should have this same attitude.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fourth, the dying church must resist being incarnational.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God chose to put on human flesh and live among humanity; God chose to interact with humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dying churches become isolationists that are uninvolved in society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dying churches give no thought to winning the community to Jesus or ministering to their community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dying churches are too wrapped up in their own survival to grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dying churches are rude and crass in dealing with the less fortunate and do not represent the love and forgiveness of Jesus, for when a church is in survival mood the disenfranchised are seen as a drain on the church’s limited revenue.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Are you a part of an urban church that is dying for the lack of change? Any one of these four steps will move your church toward obsolesce and the more steps you follow the quicker you can obtain death.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If you and a true believer in a personal relationship with Jesus and believe that you are in a dying church, you must act quickly.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">First, repent and recommit yourself to Jesus Christ and make certain you are in a personal relationship with Him.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask Jesus to show you everything in your life that hinders Him from maturing you and growing the church, and then ask Jesus to change you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Second, embrace God's living breathing power and encourage others to do it too.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure your spend time daily in personal worship, Bible study, and prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Third, be open to trying new methods in worship, Bible study, and church events.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fourth, look forward to and develop a willingness to grow, personally and congregationally.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make certain you embrace quality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="" name="SWPlaceMark"></a>You do not have to have an order of service, but if you do, it must show quality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fifth, be incarnational; make a decision to live among the people you are trying to reach.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God came to earth and lived among humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to be willing to live among people who need Jesus.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Urban churches do not have to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the pastor and church leadership remain open to God's transformation, the church can live and thrive!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-12157448775121475972011-09-05T13:06:00.000-04:002011-09-05T13:06:37.433-04:00The Separationist Church<div class="MsoNormal">Globalization has challenged prejudice in the church beyond any other event in history. Churches and denominations have found old structures of mission and evangelism being challenged to the point of forced change. In the past it was very common for churches to talk about and financially support overseas missions and feel good about it, but now those same people groups live in all urban centers. Now individual believers and churches are faced with considerable cultural groups living within walking distance of their churches and as a result are experiencing strong internal spiritual conflicts. These churches cannot admit their “ethnic prejudices” because it conflicts with their belief in the authoritativeness of Scripture. This spiritual conflict has led to a “new norm” in segregation that seems to be acceptable to the majority of churches and denominations even though it is contrary to Scripture and the early Christina church model found in the New Testament. This new norm is being “justified” with terms like “culture” or “class” and supported by sociological and psychological arguments often built around ethnomusicology and homiletical styles. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">American churches are accepting the belief that God desires the church to be equal but separate. It seems that nearly every large urban church now has an autonomous ethnic church meeting within its walls. The idea is to help an ethnic church plant become established, grow, and then move out on its own. These churches do not blend into the larger urban church, but are totally independent and separate with the two groups worshipping together once or twice each year. The greatest interaction of the two congregations occurs in the parking lot as the two distinctly separate groups pass to and from their segregated services. This type of arrangement usually provides the larger urban church a sense of satisfaction and pride, as they can provide this assistance with little or no personal investment. This arrangement gives the appearance of the “host” church being more multi-cultural than it is in reality.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In a similar fashion, churches sometime extend their ministry by created ethnic house churches. The mother church may budget for the cost of the teacher, evangelist, or pastor to lead the small ethnic group. Usually beginning as Bible Studies, these house churches consists of people who are different from the mother church, but who are still of a single culture and class. In time several of like house churches may band together to form a self-sustaining congregation. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Most urban areas have mega-churches with multi site ethnic congregations within their buildings. Sometimes these churches grow strong enough to move out as a self-sustaining church, but others remain small for years. It is common to walk through a mega-church facility on a Sunday morning and hear songs and sermons coming from different areas of the facility in different languages.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Motive is always important to God and I have no doubt that God sees the true motives of the Separationist. Southern Baptist Churches have long adhered to the homogeneous unit principle for evangelism. Like so many other denominations, Churches practicing the homogeneous unit principle often make the argument that multi-cultural churches are not necessarily better or more spiritual than mono-cultural churches, and that multi-ethnic churches often find it is harder to reach people for Christ, but this seems to me to be little more than an excuse to practice separation views. The teaching of the New Testament does not support the homogeneous unit principle. Paul did not start separate churches for the Jewish believer and the Gentile believer. Just the opposite, the New Testament Church was filled with believers of various cultural origins and class. Wealth and poverty, educated and uneducated, young and old from every culture joined to worship God. The biblical principle of church growth is not aimed at how many people we can assemble, but rather by disciples created. Smart marketing can pull thousands of people in a sporting event and a rock concert, but few if any disciples of Christ ever emerge from one of them.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A local pastor once asked me, “What event made you want to reach and minister to people of different ethnicity?” As I thought about his question, I could not think of a single event. I had grown up in the South with active Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the community where we lived and several KKK leaders within the church I attended. As a young youth worker, I received a letter from the Grand Cyclops of the KKK thanking me for working with the “white” youth of the community. This was the background of my youth, but the love of God indwelling his children melts away hate and prejudice. He will have no part in such sinful behaviors and the church will never be able to whitewash their tombs of worship enough to win His approval. It sickens our Lord.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Jesus was ethnically and culturally a Jew, would he really be welcome in your church? Jesus was a street person, usually dirty and sweaty, and sometimes smelly. He slept on the ground with no place to lay his head. Jesus did not speak English; and in our country, he would be considered a foreigner, an alien, and a non citizen. So ask yourself, “Would Jesus be welcome in my church?”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So what do you do if you sense prejudice and hatred in the mission arm of your church? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First</i></b>, you talk it over with Jesus in prayer. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Second</i></b>, you lovingly confront the evil. Begin by enlarge the multi-ethnicity and multi-culture of your friends. Remember that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the powers of darkness. unbiblical at its core. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third</i></b>, using Scripture, be prepared to show those you lovingly confront the error of their way. I suggest you begin with your pastor. Some pastors are cowardly on the subject, in part because they think they stand alone. You can show you pastor he is not alone<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. Fourth</i></b>, ask you pastor to consider a special Sunday several times each year where the church holds a “joint” service with another church of like doctrine but of a different culture. This will be an enriching experience for both churches and new friendship will emerge. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fifth</i></b>, specifically look for inter-racial and bi-racial friends and family you can invite to church to begin breaking the ice. Prepare to handle some stinging remarks from separatist church members. Not everyone will share you enthusiasm to become a biblical first century church. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sixth</i></b>, evangelize your neighborhood with a purposeful mindset having predetermined to share Jesus with all people and invite them to your church. If a Hmong family moves into your neighborhood, you share your faith and invite them to your church; you do not send them across town to a Hmong church. The only time I have ever referred other people to a church other than where I served the Lord was when they did not speak our language. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seventh</i></b>, be prepared for losses. As the church become more biblical, some people will leave. Be prepared to let them go and do not try to talk them into staying. Realize that every Christian is responsible to Christ for their personal walk. I suggest you only pray with them, assuming they want to be obedient to Christ, and pray that Jesus guide them into a greater depth of service to His kingdom.</div>Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-22816166463414595822011-07-14T21:05:00.003-04:002011-07-30T12:57:41.335-04:00The Assimilationist Church<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Obdurate Church is sometimes referred to as a Segregationist Church. These churches consist of a belief that each racial group, or even classes within a racial group, must seek only like people to be a part of the Obdurate or Segregationist Church. These churches are mono-cultural, mono-ethnic, and mono-class by choice, not necessity. “Good Christian people” dress excuses up in pious sounding verbiage that sometimes fools man, but God sees right through to the heart. The Segregationist Church never erects signage in front of their edifice to declare their disobedience to God’s Word, but their actions clearly define who is welcome and who is not. Contrary to the belief of some, this is not only an Anglo-Saxon issue. Segregationist Churches exist among every racial group.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Only slightly more biblical, yet the most common, are the Assimilationist Churches who have started inching on a journey from mono-cultural to multi-cultural, from mono-ethnic to multi-ethnic, and from mono-class to multi-class. These churches claim to favor integration, and have a well established method by which another class, race, or cultural group become an accepted member of their homogeneous community. Christians find it hard to voice opposition to integration, so most churches verbally say they are open to all people becoming a part of their church, but what exactly do they mean? Usually what is being said is not what is meant, and it is time for the leadership of our churches to address and correct this sinful behavior.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Assimilationist Church will “welcome visitors” but will not acknowledge or treat those who are different as a true “guest.” If the “visitor” continues to come or wants to join, he must “assimilate.” Assimilation is the process in which one individual or small group takes on the culture of a larger group based on the class or ethnicity of that group. In simple terms, the visitor must become “like” the larger group and learn to “fit in.” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">When I was a student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary I served as pastor of Sanford Memorial Baptist Church in Brodnax, Virginia. The whole area held a communal view of assimilation. The story was told of a resident who had died before our arrival to the community. The resident’s family moved to the area when he was a boy of four years of age. He died at the age of ninety-six. For some ninety-two years he lived in the community, longer than most people who were born there. Everyone who knew him loved and respected him. In fact, when he died the epitaph on his tombstone read, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“He was almost one of us.”</i> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">The attitude of this community at that time is representative of the Assimilationist Church today. This type of church will accept a person of another race if that person moves in, becomes like everyone else in the church, but deep down that person will never be fully accepted as “one of” the larger group. He will always be the outsider, the one who is different. The church will not attempt to modify or change to the desires or preferences of other races, cultures, or even classes. The Assimilationist Church has little enthusiasm for racial, class, or cultural sensitivity. The educated upper social class African American who goes to a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant church may be racially an African American, but has become culturally white and is thereby happy in Anglo-Saxon churches, but never fully accepted by the Anglo-Saxon church racially, but rather culturally because the African-American has accepted the Anglo-Saxon church’s culture and usually class. Studies show that racial groups that are upwardly mobile, well educated, and have some level of wealth tend to association themselves with White Anglo-Saxon Protestant churches.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Assimilationist churches are found in every racial and cultural group. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So what do you do if you discover that you are in such a church?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> First</b></i>, commit to serious prayer about your church. Admit to God that the church has prejudices and is not conducting itself like a first century church. Pull together likeminded persons to pray with you about the church, pleading with God to transform the church to a more biblical model. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Second</i></b>, confess to God and to others your desire to fully accept and befriend other races already in the church. Since these individuals have already taken on the culture of the group, this should be fairly easy; however, you must make a conscious effort to become friends with the individuals from other races and have them in your home. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third</i></b>, talk with your pastor about ways to highlight and honor all races and cultures currently represented in the church (include all organizations, scouts, daycare, etc). Share your concerns with your pastor and let him know you have pulled together a small group who are praying for serious revival and unity within the church. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fourth</i></b>, work with your pastor and seek his support in teaching and mentoring a true Christian love for people who are “different” and pointing out the benefits of coming together and learning from each other. There is so much about God cultures and races can learn from each other. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fifth</i></b>, be intentional about developing friendships and socializing with people who are different from you. Visit the Wal-Mart closest to your church and notice the people groups and cultures represented in the store; the shoppers should be representative of your church congregation, and if not there is much work to do. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sixth</i></b>, seek to diversify the leadership and staff of the church. It is important for other races and cultures to see “like faces” in the worship service and other church events. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seventh</i></b>, actively begin encouraging different cultures and races to attend worship, discipleship, and other church events. Look for opportunities to create special events designed to purposefully draw others groups into the church. This may even mean pairing with other churches and having joint services to build greater community within the larger community.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
It is most important that you not give up. Stay determined to help your church move being the small number of “token” members of other races and cultures to a true picture of the first century church.</div>Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4152010491605216472.post-78422702437570388452011-07-06T23:10:00.002-04:002011-07-14T08:01:59.720-04:00The Obdurate Church<div class="MsoNormal">Obdurate Churches exist throughout our cities. These churches are single race single class churches. Obdurate churches are found in different racial and cultural groups. In the South these churches are predominately Caucasian or African-American, although this continues to evolve as the South becomes more diverse. Obdurate churches refuse to change to accept others races, cultures, or social classes. They are only open to those who are exactly like them – same race and same social class. The problem with obdurate churches is that they are governed by unyielding leaders.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A couple years back, Susan and I went to worship with an “Obdurate Church” in our city not far from the New Life Theological Seminary. After the service I stood and talked with the Deacon Chairman about the dying congregation. I offered the assistance of the Seminary, promised we would come along beside them, involve our students and faculty, and help the church transition. He refused my plea. The church no longer exists. Over the past two decades Christians have averaged nearly 1,000 church starts every year in America, but every year more than 4,000 churches close their doors! Half of all churches in the United States did not add any new members in the last two years, and it is estimated that every year 2.7 church members fall into inactivity. What is going on?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Obdurate churches are disobedient churches and disobedient churches die! Tom Billings, Executive Director of Union Baptist Association in Houston Texas is known for reminding churches that they “are responsible for reaching all of the people in the city, not just the folks that look like us. It’s hard for us to cross over those barriers and boundaries in order to reach out, but we’ve got a responsibility for other people.” With 584 people unengaged, unreached people groups in North America there is a tremendous demand for pastors to be trained and equipped to reach them. Pastors must learn to think more like a missionary and more seminaries need to work to properly equip those called into vocational ministry.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Obdurate church can change through the power and might of the Lord Jesus! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What should you do if you find yourself in an obdurate church?</i> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First</i></b>, commit to serious prayer about your church. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Second</i></b>, begin seeking out others in the congregation that are open to praying with you about revitalization. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third</i></b>, talk with your pastor about your concerns and let him know you have pulled together a small group and that you are all praying for serious revitalization of the church. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fourth</i></b>, work with your pastor to begin teaching and developing a true Christian love for people who are “different” from those already in the church. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fifth</i></b>, become personally intentional about developing friendships and socializing with people who are different from you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sixth</i></b>, seek to diversify the staff of the church. Sometimes this can be done with the help of a seminary theological school. At New Life Theological Seminary we designed a special Mission and Mentoring program we refer to as “M&M” for this step. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seventh</i></b>, actively begin encouraging your new “different” friends into discipleship and worship. Look for opportunities and create special events to purposes draw others into the church.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As a last result</i></b>, if you can’t find others to commit to pray with you or your pastor is unwilling to help revitalize the church, leave. Sometimes death has to happen for new life to begin.</div>Dr. Eddie G. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220850491421515480noreply@blogger.com2