Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Agreeing to Disagree

How often do we agree to disagree and get to the real work at hand?

Something that has been on my mind, is our lack of unity in the American Church. Non-church people don't care if we are pre-millenial or post-millenial, Armenian or Calvin, denominational or non-denominational, they want to know do we imitate Christ in real life or not. That's the bottom line for many.

Let's put aside the rhetoric and get busy doing the kingdom work.

What is the kingdom work?

To share Jesus with the world and bring them into the kingdom. To do this I have a great list of contacts, almost everyone who gets our newsletter might be on the list. I know people who work in a great variety of jobs, with various knowledge bases, and they know people. I have a friend who put together a great outreach with the Kawaski motorcross guys, because that's where he works. Another person I knows, fixes computers just by speaking in Chinese to them (I'm kidding!). There are much smaller churches out there, with pastors who don't have a full rolodex or maybe deep pockets. What are they to do?

I think a database of people and what they have to further the kingdom work would be a great help. It could be something simple:
Joe can fix any car, 555-5555
Sue can type flawlessly at 150 wpm, 555-4444
Tom is a retired electrician, 555-3333.
One assumption that we should make is that requesting person cover expenses if applicable, unless a professional service is rendered under contract (it gets messy fast).

Actually this needs to start with a web designer, because I don't know the best way to build this list. I could do it in Excell or a chart on a web page, but there are better methods. I'm not a programmer. Somebody interested in helping? Somebody looking for a resource?

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