I got a new phone this week. I didn’t go for the iphone mostly because that is way too much technology for me. I don’t download a boat load of music and my eyesite is too bad to watch a video on a screen that small. So why waste the money?

I did get a Blackberry. Just enough technology to confuse me but not enough to make me give up. I am of that generation that generally loves the benefits of technology but hates to have to learn how to use it. Why can’t instructions be simpler? Why do I need a degree from the hated GT (just in case I haven’t said it recently GO Dawgs) to get some of these things to work? And now we are changing the phone system at the church. Way too much information, but it sure looks cool.

You know I have to make application. When planting a church follow the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid. In the beginning you need to find the one, two, or at the most three things you can do as well or better than anyone and do them. Don’t get bogged down trying to do everything the 50 year old church down the street is doing. You likely don’t have the people or the resources to pull it all off.

If worship is your open door do it the very best you can and work to make it better each week and better than anyone around you. If small groups are your open door then do the same thing with small groups, do more and do them better than anyone.

We just completed the REVEAL survey from Willow Creek Church. A shout out to our children and youth ministries, the positive responses to these ministries as an outreach program and teaching program scored in the 20% above average range. If children’s programs are the thing, then do it better than anyone.

I think that’s biblical or something, “Whatever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord.” Great wisdom in that.  

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