Let me say that I will post the full rundown on this over the weekend – maybe even tomorrow night and let it run until Monday. I’ll blog – not live blog – about the TMABC meeting with Milfred Minatrea and Frank Page. We also have a pastor’s meeting with them both on Monday, which I will blog later as well.
In the meantime, let me say that I have noted a distinct difference in the responses to the original post. Those who I know to be or I suspect to be from a traditional church background – rather, I should say are integrated in the traditional church structure – are all for inviting the lost to church right away.
Tim Guthrie is pastoring a church that is innovating and so betrays a slightly different approach. Bart is a layman church planter and now a member of my church. He is the only one that I know – in all of my life – that has really sought to invest his life into the current younger generation, even though he is not IN that generation.
Please note what he said, “For the past 5 plus years I have had a burden for young adults. In that short time I have had to change how I approached them with Jesus. An invite to church almost always shortened the conversation and sometimes ended it. I found that in both ‘lost’ and ‘believers’.”
Then he goes on to say, “If I built a relationship with them and I was able to bend the conversation towards church, where I went was always asked. Then I always told them how friendly, loving, and an example of what the church meant to me.
So it wasn’t a matter of whether or not the lost get invited to church, but when it gets placed in the whole of the conversation.
My thoughts tomorrow afternoon, after the Phriday foto in the morning.
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