Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Pastor Kerry Mackey joins the leadership team at Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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Kerry Mackey
on April 18, 2008
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We are so excited to share with the Street to the Seat learning community that we have joined the leadership team at Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida as the Director of Adult Ministries. We will land there around the 29th of April and our first day in the offices will be May 1st.

Christ Fellowship
5343 Northlake Boulevard
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
(561) 799-7600

The Christ Fellowship Family has a rich heritage of ministering personally, locally, and globally. Under the leadership of Senior Pastor Tom Mullins and Executive Pastor Todd Mullins Christ Fellowship is impacting the kingdom in substantial ways. Christ Fellowship is a multi-site church with future campuses in the works and is founded on beliefs and core values that are rock solid.

Stephanie and I are honored to be apart of such a great church and we hope to add to an already incredible team of servants.
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We’ll keep you posted on the details.

Don’t forget our new website launches on May 1st as well.

Street to the Seat is stronger than ever. Keep getting the word out about our learning community and don’t forget to hook up with us through blip.tv, facebook, twitter, utterz, and linedin

Blessings!

HUGE NEWS is just around the corner from Pastor Kerry Mackey - Stay Tuned!

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Kerry Mackey
on April 17, 2008
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HUGE NEWS is coming to you via Street to the Seat in the next 72 - 96 hours so don’t go away.

This is BIG!

“The people Jesus misses most” and “Is this what your Jesus told you to do.”

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Kerry Mackey
on April 14, 2008
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I’ve hi-jacked this phrase from Jim Henderson at Off the Map, “The People Jesus Misses Most“. When I pair that with Matt Casper’s phrase, “Is this what your Jesus told you to do” it causes me focus in on asking questions about creating organic community to use Joseph Myers terminology, that moves persons in the direction of Jesus.

I find myself asking more critical questions about why we do what we do the way we do it. A discussion this past weekend triggered me to ask myself even more questions about topics that Jim, Matt, and Joseph are speaking of.

I was reminded of, “the people Jesus misses most” when I proposed the question to some clergy of how their church might react to someone who enters their church with tattoos and piercings. When the clergy replied, “they wouldn’t be welcome”. Why not, I asked? The clergy replied, “they would feel out of place, our people wouldn’t know how to respond to them and people like that just don’t come to our churches.”

My response was, “then I wouldn’t be made to feel welcome would I, because I have 2 half-sleeve tattoos from my shoulders to my elbows”. You can imagine the facial response. I responded by saying, “Do you get my point”. We have put limits on who we feel comfortable with in our services, how we treat them, and our expectations of them. This goes way beyond tattoos and piercings to persons of different ethic backgrounds, mix race marriages, persons living a different lifestyle, persons with criminal records, and the list goes on.

That begs the question, if we are to focus on, “the people Jesus misses most” - (to clarify, I’m referring to persons who are not moving toward Jesus) - it has nothing to do with piercings or tattoos, then we most ask ourselves the question. Is what we are doing the way we are doing it, “what your Jesus told you to do”?

As you look at the week ahead critically evaluated what you are doing and ask yourself these two questions:

1. Does this address the needs of the people Jesus misses most?

2. Is this what my Jesus told me to do?

Understanding Church Traditions and the Price of Change

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Kerry Mackey
on April 12, 2008
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I’ve spent the day with 40 clergy and their parishioners from the Easton Diocese of Maryland teaching the Purpose Driven principles. What a great day of discussion it has been. I love it when the light switch around the purposes turns on.

My learning from the day is that we as churches in the south don’t understand tradition. Tradition in the south is 50 - 150 or so years.

In the Northeast traditions go back 200 - 300 years. In fact, today in my talk one of the churches represented is celebrating 316 years of ministry in 2008.

So when we talk about transitioning churches or parishes we need to be sensitive to tradition. Transitioning a church that is 316 years old is different than planting a church or transitioning a church with less than 50 years of history.

I’d love to poll our readers to find out the age of your churches.

Click on “Comments” below this blog posting and give us the name of your church/parish, city/state, and how old it is.

Goal of 500 followers on Twitter.com

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Kerry Mackey
on April 10, 2008
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We’ve set a goal of 500 followers on our Twitter account for this quarter.

Follow Street to the Seat

http://twitter.com/StS

Great clip on tonymorganlive.com “Be Your Own Man”

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Kerry Mackey
on April 10, 2008
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I loved this worship clip from www.tonymorganlive.com . Enjoy

Learning About Yourself is Healthy

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Kerry Mackey
on April 9, 2008
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I’ve just arrived back in Dallas/Fort Worth after being in Florida for a week. Stephanie, the boys, and I had a great time in southern Florida. We can’t wait be back there again.

Learned something about myself on the trip. And as you know learning about yourself is very healthy. That is if you take the learning to heart and do something about it.

Through a caliper assessment, as well as 10 plus meetings over a six day period I was reminded how crucial relationships are on the journey as you allow persons to speak into your life. I was reminded that we are living beings who need nourishing as we are becoming.

I would have to admit that over the past several years my Type A, drivenness, desire to create, confident persona has been on overloaded. And with that I sometimes find myself not being as good of a listener as I should.

During my time in Florida I really got a sense from the Hoy Spirit that it is time in my life to slow down and listen more as I tend to the health of people.

My recap…continue to allow persons to speak into your life, slow down, listen, and remember you have nothing to prove.

Update from Northridge Park Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas

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Kerry Mackey
on April 1, 2008
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I just received and email from Pastor David Miracle of Northridge Park in San Antonio, Texas. They have moved on our recommendations and are already seeing the fruits of their labor.

Here are a couple of pictures they sent us of their progress.

Signage communicating the new parking lot.

Updated baseball field.

Clean and serviceable court yard.

Not to mention the work they have done on an onsite storage facility, additional parking lots, and upkeep of the campus.

Well done Northridge Park. Way to go!