Sunday, March 19, 2006

Sunday Night Live

We take fun seriously at NCC. We're unapologetic about the fact that we love to laugh. I think the church ought to have more laughs per capita than anyplace else on earth.

We definitely upped the laughs per capita tonight :) We had our first Sunday Night Live event at Ebenezers. To quote Pastor Joel, "It was a night of hilarity!"

The creativity of our team never ceases to amaze me. I had nothing to do with the event so I got to sit back and enjoy it. The stand up was great. Joel cracks me up like nobody's business. And we had everything from a dance contest to the kiss cam to a live band. I've been live at Letterman a couple times and I think we topped it.

And you've gotta love having the coffeehouse upstairs for post-event fellowship.

I try not to be prescriptive with the way we do church. I think every church is unique. We need lots of different kinds of churches because there are lots of different kinds of people. But I could see a coffeehouse trend than mirrors the theater trend. We have this core conviction that the church belongs in the middle of the marketplace. I think God is calling the church back into the marketplace.

It was so cool to meet some non-NCCers tonight. And I know that there is no way they would have come if we weren't doing church in a coffeehouse.

Cool beans.

1 Comments:

At March 21, 2006 8:30 AM, Blogger Chris Marsden said...

Mark stole my idea. Not really, but I think royalties may be in order.

Glad to see the Kingdom advancing with ideas and venues that don't fit the mold.

 

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