The Competition?

Jerry Flint is a senior automotive editor for Forbes magazine. I read a quote from him today that speaks volumes about the church. Jerry flint said this:

"Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results."

For far too long "the church" has considered other churches to be "the competition." However, I will never consider another church to be a competitor. With 300,000 people in Northampton County and considering that national statistics suggest that 165,000 of those people don't know Christ, other churches are allies not competition. The real competition for growing, relevant, bible believing, Christ preaching churches is not other churches but anything that will keep people from coming to church on the weekend.

Our competition is the golf course, the movie theater, night clubs, sporting events, T.V. shows and anything that keeps people from coming to our church buildings. As Jerry Flint suggests, competing with those kinds of experiences can be painful but if we do it right, if we truly develop the kind of quality that people experience everywhere outside the church, if we tell the greatest story in the world in the most compelling and creative ways possible, we will reach our community!!

That's who we are! That's what we are going to do!

We will not compromise the message and we will not compromise the quality. The results will be great!

Stay tuned, invite your friends and watch what God does!