October 15, 2009
Pop you Green Thinking Cap when planning Christmas. Creative thinking and letting people run with statements of provocation and investigation, and seeing where a thought may go can often lead to an idea that is just that more a little out of the ordinary. Maybe it is a new Christmas service suiting different demographic or accommodating Families in your services, or thinking up a new way to promote your services or even just shaping new ideas around the gifts and talents and resources and skills they are given to your church family. Some call it the Purple Cow, the WOW principle or the Big Idea.
So let’s ask ourselves, have you been doing the same service/s without much variation every Christmas for the last however many years?
Have you become invisible to your local community because you do the same old, ordinary things?
If they went one year to the Christmas Service would they get the ‘same thing’ if they went the next year? Sure let’s keep the message about Jesus the same but let’s strive for creativity so our churches are seen, people would come and so people would hear the message of Jesus you are preaching.
Mat 9:36 is still outstanding indication for our cities today, including Monrvia. Yes, it takes a labourer to make a disciple. So let’s pray that the heavenly Father sends workers… to make disciples out of the converts. God Bless Liberia for Christ. Leonard