Church in a Club
Got an email earlier this week from Clay Baggett. He's chasing a lion in Nashville. Just launched a church in a nightclub called The Lift. Here's the clincher: it used to be a strip club.
I feel a special affinity for this plant because we used to do a monthly event called Catacombs at the largest nightclub in DC. And I wouldn't rule out a nightclub as a future location for NCC. I think theaters, coffeehouses, and nightclubs are the premiun marketplace venues in our culture. That is where churches ought to be meeting!
I have this core conviction: the good news ought to make the news. The church needs to find ways to demand attention--Luke 14:23. It's not about being different for difference sake. It goes beyond doing something just to get attention. And gimmicks always backfire. But there is nothing like getting attention in authentic ways--by being who you are and doing what you do! Love the way The Lift is doing that.
Check out the news story.
I've said it a thousand times: there are ways of doing church that no one has thought of yet. There are always place to do church that no one has thought of yet!
I feel a special affinity for this plant because we used to do a monthly event called Catacombs at the largest nightclub in DC. And I wouldn't rule out a nightclub as a future location for NCC. I think theaters, coffeehouses, and nightclubs are the premiun marketplace venues in our culture. That is where churches ought to be meeting!
I have this core conviction: the good news ought to make the news. The church needs to find ways to demand attention--Luke 14:23. It's not about being different for difference sake. It goes beyond doing something just to get attention. And gimmicks always backfire. But there is nothing like getting attention in authentic ways--by being who you are and doing what you do! Love the way The Lift is doing that.
Check out the news story.
I've said it a thousand times: there are ways of doing church that no one has thought of yet. There are always place to do church that no one has thought of yet!
4 Comments:
It just makes sense. If we would like to have a conversation about God with those who would rather go to a club than go to church, then we could make it easy for them. It says to the club crowd that the church crowd cares enough about them to come into their world. Sounds a bit like Jesus.
it makes "See you at the Pole" a little different.
Great
(and hahaha at that pole comment)
Even Jay Lenno has heard about this one...he referenced it in a joke one night this week...at least the word is getting out.
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