Comments on: Church Planning http://www.fusionlife.org/2006/02/22/church-planning/ Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:27:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris Marsden http://www.fusionlife.org/2006/02/22/church-planning/comment-page-1/#comment-2284 Chris Marsden Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:21:50 +0000 http://fusionlife.org/2006/02/22/church-planning/#comment-2284 <p>I canceled my subscription to the leadership blog because of their question, where do you see yourself in ten years. The kind of people they interview and the kind of people that churches look at for models of success can look back and say that they had no idea God would do this. Where were multi site churches 10 years ago? How many mega churches were there 10 years ago compared to today? What did the word Emergent mean 10 years ago? </p> <p>The church is not a conservative business venture, but rather an explosive, radical, counter culture movement. Normal trends don't (or at least shouldn't) apply.</p> I canceled my subscription to the leadership blog because of their question, where do you see yourself in ten years. The kind of people they interview and the kind of people that churches look at for models of success can look back and say that they had no idea God would do this. Where were multi site churches 10 years ago? How many mega churches were there 10 years ago compared to today? What did the word Emergent mean 10 years ago?

The church is not a conservative business venture, but rather an explosive, radical, counter culture movement. Normal trends don’t (or at least shouldn’t) apply.

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