So my wife loves the Indy 500. We grew up an hour away from Indianapolis and her Dad sells auto parts. Its kinda in her blood. So over the years I have learned a lot about Indy cars. They used to have different chasis, engines, tires, all kinds of fun stuff. Now they are pretty much the same, same chasis, tires, engines. To me, BORING! Basically every car is the same except for driver and his or her skill. Cool if your the driver but to the guy who wants to see cars go faster and set new records its lame. The reason for the sameness is for safety. A good reason but for 100 years the Indy 500 is been about innovation and creating new things to go faster. But they have gotten away from innovation in favor of safety and the ratings are getting lower and lower ratings article here .
Instead of making everything the same why not innovate better safety equipment. (My imagination has huge blow up balls that cover the cars bouncing around the race track after a wreck.) We don't do that? We retreat to safety instead of moving forward to innovation.
Our churches are like the Indy 500 (not mine of course, just yours hehe) we have gone away from the innovation, the creativity to set new records because we want safety. Think about it. When was the last time you walked into a church and said Woah! Now you probably heard the same Chris Tomlin songs and Hillside United (if you prefer a contemporary service) or the same Gaither songs (I don't want to talk about it). Yeah it may be hard, dangerous, and down right scary but what happens when we push the boundaries. What happens when better systems are put in? How is the kingdom of God effected with drastically different worship, service, and spiritual formation ideas? I am not speaking just to worship styles, but to the way in which we lead the congregation and teach the scripture. Is anyone else tired of Andy Stanley or Rick Warren clones? They are great preachers awesome communicators but I am not them and neither are you. (I tried to be Rob Bell once I even have dark rimmed glasses it didn't work out well)
If the Indy 500 went back to innovation instead of safety ratings would sky rocket. If churches got back to innovating the Kingdom of God would be made present here on earth.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Indy Cars are like Churches
So my wife loves the Indy 500. We grew up an hour away from Indianapolis and her Dad sells auto parts. Its kinda in her blood. So over the years I have learned a lot about Indy cars. They used to have different chasis, engines, tires, all kinds of fun stuff. Now they are pretty much the same, same chasis, tires, engines. To me, BORING! Basically every car is the same except for driver and his or her skill. Cool if your the driver but to the guy who wants to see cars go faster and set new records its lame. The reason for the sameness is for safety. A good reason but for 100 years the Indy 500 is been about innovation and creating new things to go faster. But they have gotten away from innovation in favor of safety and the ratings are getting lower and lower ratings article here .
Instead of making everything the same why not innovate better safety equipment. (My imagination has huge blow up balls that cover the cars bouncing around the race track after a wreck.) We don't do that? We retreat to safety instead of moving forward to innovation.
Our churches are like the Indy 500 (not mine of course, just yours hehe) we have gone away from the innovation, the creativity to set new records because we want safety. Think about it. When was the last time you walked into a church and said Woah! Now you probably heard the same Chris Tomlin songs and Hillside United (if you prefer a contemporary service) or the same Gaither songs (I don't want to talk about it). Yeah it may be hard, dangerous, and down right scary but what happens when we push the boundaries. What happens when better systems are put in? How is the kingdom of God effected with drastically different worship, service, and spiritual formation ideas? I am not speaking just to worship styles, but to the way in which we lead the congregation and teach the scripture. Is anyone else tired of Andy Stanley or Rick Warren clones? They are great preachers awesome communicators but I am not them and neither are you. (I tried to be Rob Bell once I even have dark rimmed glasses it didn't work out well)
If the Indy 500 went back to innovation instead of safety ratings would sky rocket. If churches got back to innovating the Kingdom of God would be made present here on earth.
Instead of making everything the same why not innovate better safety equipment. (My imagination has huge blow up balls that cover the cars bouncing around the race track after a wreck.) We don't do that? We retreat to safety instead of moving forward to innovation.
Our churches are like the Indy 500 (not mine of course, just yours hehe) we have gone away from the innovation, the creativity to set new records because we want safety. Think about it. When was the last time you walked into a church and said Woah! Now you probably heard the same Chris Tomlin songs and Hillside United (if you prefer a contemporary service) or the same Gaither songs (I don't want to talk about it). Yeah it may be hard, dangerous, and down right scary but what happens when we push the boundaries. What happens when better systems are put in? How is the kingdom of God effected with drastically different worship, service, and spiritual formation ideas? I am not speaking just to worship styles, but to the way in which we lead the congregation and teach the scripture. Is anyone else tired of Andy Stanley or Rick Warren clones? They are great preachers awesome communicators but I am not them and neither are you. (I tried to be Rob Bell once I even have dark rimmed glasses it didn't work out well)
If the Indy 500 went back to innovation instead of safety ratings would sky rocket. If churches got back to innovating the Kingdom of God would be made present here on earth.
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