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\u201cWe\u2019re still thinkin\u2019 like a 200-member church.\u201d \u2013 <\/em>Ken Moss, one of my elders, guarding the much needed shift in thinking when your church family grows numerically over 200<\/font><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re still thinkin\u2019 like a 20th-century church.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Yours Truly, guarding the much needed shift in thinking when your culture won\u2019t respond like they once did to your church family\u2019s mode of \u201cdoing church\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Generally speaking, if you were to study 20th-century Christianity, with an eye to imitate it now in the 21st-century, you would\u2026<\/p>\n \u2026put your primary attention and focus on your Sunday meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2026find or build a place adequate to have your Sunday meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2026recruit or hire the best public speaker you can find, attract, or afford to preach at your Sunday meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2026recruit or hire the best worship leader you can find, attract, or afford to lead singing and\/or music at your Sunday meeting. <\/em><\/p>\n \u2026collect money from the people who attend your Sunday meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2026support and surround your Sunday meeting with good programs for kids to attract families with kids to your meetings.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2026spend tons of leadership man-hours deciding what is best, appropriate, most-effective and Biblical to do at and through your Sunday meetings.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2026mobilize the people at your Sunday meetings to share the saving message of Christ with people who don\u2019t come to your Sunday meetings, and when they accept that message, get them to faithfully you at your Sunday meetings.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2026measure success by how many attend your Sunday meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n Generally speaking, if you want to imitate the 20th-century church, the above list will pretty much get you on your way. <\/p>\n Any questions? Thoughts?<\/p>\n I need to tell you that I\u2019m speaking (1) as a primary participant in one of these 20th-century modeled churches, and (2) as a human being who is noticing that other human beings do not respond to this mode of church like they used to, and (3) most importantly and urgently, as a dad who is questioning whether this 20th-century model is going to effectively deliver Christ\u2019s way of life to my kids and their friends in this very different, constantly changing 21st-century.<\/p>\n Any questions? Thoughts? Guidance? 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