January 22-24, 2010 I attended a United Methodist training about Creating a Culture of New Church Starts for leaders of eight annual (regional) conferences in the Western Jurisdiction of the United States. I enjoyed the enthusiasm, passion and excellant presentations by all of the panelists and speakers.
I was particularly struck by the frequent statement "it [starting a new church] is much harder now than it was." "Things are different now than they were 20 years agon, even 10 years ago." from those pastors who were formerly new church start pastor, now turned church developers for their annual (regional) conferences.
It's really not about being better or working harder at the same things we once did. I heard someone say... It's not about doing things right...it's about doing the right things. But, I wondered, do we even know what the "right things" are?
A pastor from Huntley sent this link out to those of us who are reading "Missional Leader" by Romanoff and Roxburgh...it's an article from the Lewis Center about quantifying some of the "discontinuous changes" we are all experiencing as we consider being church now and tomorrow.
http://lifelongfaith.com/assets/docs/FF2020-TrendsSummary.pdf.
What are the "right things" that you are doing?
How do you know that they are the "right things"?
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