Dechurched
I'm sitting in team meeting and we're sharing wins like we always do at the beginning of the meeting. We just had a guy visit Sunday who has been "dechurched" for eighteen years. I love stories like that. It really seems like NCC is a church for people who quit going to church. We're a church for people on the rebound. On our last survey we were 25% unchurched and 50% dechurched.
Nothing gives me greater joy than helping people find their way back to God.
Nothing gives me greater joy than helping people find their way back to God.
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I live just outside of NYC and go there often. I was actually there two weekends in a row and both weekends i got to talking about God and church. The first conversation I had was with a 22 year old guy - the second was with a 30 year old married couple and the third was with a 25 year old woman from Chinatown. All four people were "dechurched" and all four commented that they want to go, but the whole "church thing" just isn't working. Again, all four said they think it might work for them when they decide to have kids. This makes me believe that they see church as only a place to teach their kids some morals and not a place for them to grow....can you understand why? For so long they've sat in church pews crazy bored! Their inital problem is that they can't relate to the pastor- either they are too boring or too much like a preacher on tv. It seems fake to them.
I told them about NCC- but had to break the news that it was in Virginia. Do you know of any churches in NYC that I can recommend to these people? and if you can't think of any....I know a lot of people read this....someone come to NYC and plant a church! We need you!
You may want to check out and refer your friends to The Journey in NYC.
http://www.nyjourney.com/
NCC has partnered with Journey in the past, is sending a missions team to work with them in late October, and has done "reconnaissance missions" there as well.
The Journey is a great church. Love what those guys are doing! I would also recommend Redeemer Presbyterian (http://www.redeemer.com/index.cfm#Begin)
hey thanks. nyjounrey.com looked real cool.
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