10 Barrels Inspiration
So Im chatting with my friend Tony the mortgage broker the other day sipping a delightful 10 barrels IPA at Kelly's Olympian in Downtown portland watching the snow come down and we got onto our favorite subject. The church.
Background...most of you probably know by now that I don't really know what to do with institutional church. It eludes me. None-the-less Tony and I were chatting about our most recent thoughts regarding planting a church in Portland. He proposed this idea. What if sending people out is something we do all the time. So as soon as 12-15 folks are showing up and in relationship from a particular neighborhood we send them out to start their own thing in that neighborhood. That we are generous with relationships.
I began to question him inside thinking of the sadness of losing the "best" guitar player, or a great teacher....and then I thought. Wait, I have NEVER, EVER wanted the sunday morning service to be the zenith of our mutual experience as the ecclesia every week. So we love to suck, we embrace the it's not perfect ethos. Why? Because our sunday morning gathering is not the climax of our experience with God or each other.
We (the church) are supposed to be about relationship and being in it together. That is our apogee. That is the thing to which we pour our greatest effort, time, and resources into. Being excellently relationally bound to one another.
So therefore since the sunday morning experience isnt "IT." We can give generously of peoples gifts and talents because we don't need to hold them close.
Maybe it was the inspirational 10 barrels IPA...or maybe it was the alcohol. But I felt inspired and wanted to share.
Cheers
Background...most of you probably know by now that I don't really know what to do with institutional church. It eludes me. None-the-less Tony and I were chatting about our most recent thoughts regarding planting a church in Portland. He proposed this idea. What if sending people out is something we do all the time. So as soon as 12-15 folks are showing up and in relationship from a particular neighborhood we send them out to start their own thing in that neighborhood. That we are generous with relationships.
I began to question him inside thinking of the sadness of losing the "best" guitar player, or a great teacher....and then I thought. Wait, I have NEVER, EVER wanted the sunday morning service to be the zenith of our mutual experience as the ecclesia every week. So we love to suck, we embrace the it's not perfect ethos. Why? Because our sunday morning gathering is not the climax of our experience with God or each other.
We (the church) are supposed to be about relationship and being in it together. That is our apogee. That is the thing to which we pour our greatest effort, time, and resources into. Being excellently relationally bound to one another.
So therefore since the sunday morning experience isnt "IT." We can give generously of peoples gifts and talents because we don't need to hold them close.
Maybe it was the inspirational 10 barrels IPA...or maybe it was the alcohol. But I felt inspired and wanted to share.
Cheers
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