Ryan Bolger, author and instructor at Fuller, has a great post on the role of the Sunday service in how churches think about evangelism and life together. Doug and I talk about this stuff ALL THE TIME as we live and breathe the challenge of growing a church in our community.
Thanks to Todd Hiestand at Meremission.org for this link.
[…] We are church-planting here in our community (yes, even though it has already been four years, I definitely would still describe us as a church-plant). My husband is our worship pastor and we talk all the time about the nature and purpose of Sunday worship. And I find Spinks’ analogy a helpful illustration in explaining the tensions that we sometimes feel. […]