Oh, O, O. I came across this on Smallgroups.com (I have a membership) then checked it out on You Tube. Jim, a pastor goes with Matt Caspar an atheist to 10 or 12 different churches around the United States then discuss their thoughts and responses to the services. It is done in pleasant conversation, but it certainly is an eyeopener as to objective impressions of church.
They wrote a book by the same name. But if you want some good discussion starters for your leadership team check these out.
Click "read more" and go to the videos.
This is the introduction so you get the premise of the whole thing.
Here's the first in a series of conversations between Jim and Matt about their church experiences.
Pt. 2 Easy Beliefism
Pt. 3 Hope vs. Certainty
Get's you thinking, eh? How do we do ministry? What is that we do not need to apologize for and what may need some rethinking? What do we learn about ourselves in this?
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2Comment at Thursday, 04 December 2008 11:25by John
Wow, this really get's me thinking hard. I wonder how much of it we should apologize for, like you said and how much of it is just foreign to Matt. Does everything need to be the same as the world? I'm not convinced of that. I think we have practices that are specific to our activity as worshiping people of God.
1Comment at Thursday, 04 December 2008 08:45by Allen
