As I think out loud about our future (SBC and the future of any Great Commission Church or organization) asking the right questions vs. the wrong questions is critical:
Wrong Question: How do we save our denomination?
Right Question: How do we present a Gospel witness to every man, woman, and child in America?
Wrong Question: How do we harvest more?
Right Question: How can we increase the amount and intensity of harvest praying?
Wrong Question: How do we fix our dead and dying churches or plant new ones?
Right Question: How do we transform our communities for Christ?
Wrong Question: How do we attract people to our churches and increase baptisms?
Right Question: How do we deploy transformed missionaries in every community?
Wrong Question: How do restructure our denomination?
Right Question: How will God reshape our denomination to impact lostness?
Wrong Question: What does God want from our denomination or organization?
Right Question: What does God want? (Source: Neal McGlohon)
May the conversations continue and the environment change. Headed to Rock Hill today for a meeting with Community Life Church, and the North Rock Hill Planting Center. Still amazed at what I see happening in S.C.
1 comment:
WOW!!! Hey man, this is some of the most sobering, in your face questions I have seen anyone in the SBC be willing to ask. Thanks for putting your thoughts out there and being brave enough to ask the hard questions. These are questions that need to be asked all the way up the food chain. These are the same types of questions and thoughts being represented in the trenches.
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