Play A New Game…

Habakkuk 3:2

LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD.  Renew them in our day, in our time make them known…

Seth Godin (www.sethgodin.typepad.com) recently wrote, “Play a new game, not the old game faster.”

He says, “A car is not merely a faster horse.   And email is not a faster fax.  And online project management is not a bigger whiteboard.  And Facebook is not an electronic rolodex.”

I can’t stand conversations where we remember the victories of months or years ago and lay plans to do the same thing again because, “Hey, it worked last time.”  If something worked in 1979 or 1999 or even just 2 months ago, that’s an awesome memory!  But it’s not a plan for next weekend.

If the Church wants to reach a culture that is quickly falling out of touch with God, it’s time to try something brand new.  Too often, it seems that culture changes everywhere except inside the doors of the Church.  So let’s stop doing things because we’ve always done them and let’s start doing things because they just might work better in our new culture.

It’s not popular to say, but rather than pour energy into a faster VBS, let’s invent something never seen before.  Instead of a better Sunday School, let’s teach the Bible in a new way.  Let’s write new music in lieu of jazzed-up late-90′s “contemporary choruses.”  Let’s dream up imaginative experiences using all the arts instead of writing a more detailed 3 point sermon.

Take just a second and dream with me of a new kind of a Church to reach a new kind of a Culture.

I don’t know about you, but I want to be a part of that…