get the buzz – Building a brilliant church full of brilliant people! part two

They see long.

A brilliant church is always generational – Abrahams, Isaacs and Jacobs all uniting for the vision. A brilliant church is where the old celebrate the young and young celebrate the old. They are multi generational thinkers honouring one another. They love it when it’s filled with young people. It’s not just about ‘what’s in it for me’, but ‘what’s in it for us.’ It’s big, faith thinking! Where we are at in Stoke at the moment is fantastic. This is a new day an new church and a new Bethel, it is time to celebrate the fact that this is also a new generation.

get the buzz – introduction

 

Building a brilliant church full of brilliant people

That’s it it is time to get rid of boring church, in fact it is banned, I am sick of church being dull, predictable, safe, unbrilliant.

It is time to get the buzz once again to champion a Brilliant church full of brilliant people. Brilliant people are all about the team, long term influence, the tide of growth and high sacrifice – after all, the journey of faith is a high adventure to distant lands. There’s no turning back; no returning; no back tracking. The past is gone forever. Unbrilliant people sing yesterdays songs. Brilliant people sing new songs for the new day approaching. Unbrilliant people are couch potato legends, sofa saints (that’s why they love little, ineffective churches). Brilliant people want to be legends in the land, leaving a legacy for generations to come.

So what makes brilliant people so different from the run of the mill unbrilliant ones? over the next ten days we will look at who to get , and keep , the buzz, when everyone else seems to be losing theirs.

calling the all-stars

We do something strange in Church, well to tell the truth we do a lot of things that are strange in church but one of the things we do is we tend to spend most of our time, energy and resource in people that will not change and quite frankly are a drain.

 

Don’t get me wrong I realise we need to look after the vulnerable and needy to champion the common man, it is not these people I am talking about it is the people that could do it for themselves but choose not to, they are problem magnets with victim mentalities. There are not many of them but you can guarantee they will suck most of your time and energy if they can and what do we do.

 

We give them what they want

 

We pander to them because we don’t want to upset them

 

And do you know the worst thing of all

 

In doing this we ignore the people we should be investing into

 

The all-stars

 

You know the all-stars, the people who will give you the extra mile every time, who just get on with it without complaint or fuss.

 

The people that you find you can’t help smiling when you are around them that actually offer solutions not problems.

 

Wouldn’t it be great if instead of spending all our time with the people that drain us we could invest what we have into these all-stars, to support them to champion them, to release them to soar?

 

Imagine the impact these people will have on the church, community, city if you do this, to create an environment that causes them to grow and feel safe to express themselves, to become all that God wants them to be.

 

Just a thought