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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Blogs.
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Blogs.
It cost $50 to get in the gate, $12 to park, $6.50 per hotdog, $5.50 per coke. Yet all this for a Rangers Game. But the question is, why to we spend so much and watch a 3 hour baseball game yet have problems with one hour at church? I think it has to do with one word – Excitement. But wait a minute. What should be more exciting, interacting with our Creator or watching some way over priced guys run around some bags? Don’t get me wrong, the game last night was really exciting.
This got me thinking about the emotional agenda of church. It seems like it is the same agenda every single week almost at every single church. The first song is something exciting. Then we have a welcome, followed by a sequence of songs that goes from exciting to reflective. This if followed by a sermon that is suppose to convict, then followed by an invitation where the entire service is critiqued. More people come to the front, the more productive we have been.
Those that break these molds are usually criticized. Pray for me as I begin to reexamin this emotional agenda within our own church.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Blogs.
As I am writing this, my cell phone is off and there is almost no way to contact me. Rachel and I have gotten away for the weekend and we are staying in this very unique hotel. We are actually staying in the Hyatt Place, which is a hotel for the target consumers of 30 year-olds. Rachel and I were trying to describe it because we would like to say that the hotel is pretty fancy. But fancy would be the wrong word. Instead of some 4-star hotel where there is marble floors, gold lampstands, and dead floral arrangments on every floor, there is a 42 inch flat screen HD tv in every room.
Here’s where the uniqueness really kicks in. Instead of someone being at the front desk checking you in, there is a computer kiosk where you check yourself in. It even kicks out the keys for you right there at the computer. You go to the kitchen, order your food at a flat screen computer and someone comes out with your food.
So instead of having people work for you, the people here are payed to be with you (well, not all the time). The workers (hosts as they’re called) are not here to check you in and make sure there are towels in your room, but they are here to help you find whatever you need. They are here to print out maps to where ever you are wanting to go. They are here to carry on conversations and to make you feel at home.
This is unique, but why is it that important to blog about this? Because people, especially in my generation, are not looking for places to be, but looking for a place to belong. We have questions about how to be holistically successful in life. There are churches on every corner. What we want is to find one where we BELONG not just go to. This hotel does this well. They focus on making their customers belong, not just sleep well.
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