Stephen McAlpine

From Across the Net – “Is Your Church Frantic or Focussed?”

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This is worth the read:

It says a lot about church culture that above anything else we fear “white space”, we fear a lack of noise.  It says a lot about church culture that everything has to run smoothly to the point that a gap in the service is viewed as hellish.  I expect my eleven year old son to be that little bit bored in church.

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From Across the Net – “Hey Church: A Fallow Year Ain’t A Bad Idea”

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I liked this:

We look at the busy culture and rather than be counter-cultural to busy, in order to defang it in the long term by building non-busy practices into the lives of our people, we decide that we will allow the culture to set the rules of the game – busy, busy, busy- then play by their rules.

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