A thought on tithing

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by The Lemon

Hey Deacon,

After reading and pondering many of your posts, I am thinking that at least in my own Church experience, I have lacked the exposure to really being in the communities as you say.

Maybe I should come to your neck of the woods and see how its done. From what I see and from my little experience, the structure and the tradition in OP is to go to church on Sundays and Wed nights...amen the preacher, pray, speak in tongues, go to the alter and go home...week after week, month after month ect. Now , I'm not saying there is anything wrong with praying, speaking in tongues or any of that necessarily....but everything is encapsulated in the church house and structure...it all revolves around that.

Seems like you would be the type of pastor to go out in the street on Sunday morning and be the church rather then just meet in a building all the time and play church....am I wrong on that assumption?

I try to get out in the community every day. In fact I spend more time studying at Starbucks than I do in the office. For a while I worked at Sbux. This year earlier, a former barista I worked with got saved and joined our church along with her fiancé. I've been here 12 years. It's taken a while to get the OP cobwebs out of our church culture. But we're working in it. We host early voting in our community and that has really elevated our exposure in the city. We just had a meeting tonight about getting involved with the inner city ministry a mentioned earlier. You've just got to decide if you're going to be a church to please church people, or are you going to be a church reaching for outsiders.