architecting first impressions today for tomorrows encounter
I was walking our campus this morning with Heidi Matson (Pastor of First Impression & Assimilation – Friends Church, Yorba Linda, Ca) which I had the great privilege of hiring this month as we evaluated how we are doing. As Heidi and I began at the street corner to look back in on our [...]
Here are a couple of thoughts I’ve had running around in my head these past couple of months. We (the Church) have made the steps for choosing Christ and the Church way to stinking hard. Through our best efforts in assimilation and first impressions we have complicated ones realization of their desire for God. We [...]
Well, I thought I’d step off in this one early by saying I think you can belong before you believe and certainly before you behave and/or become. I haven’t always had this perspective. For years I was trained to teach persons to believe, behave, and then they could belong and become. I even wrote about [...]
