Venture's Location

We finalized our Sunday meeting place for our first year at Venture- Crownover Middle School. It's a great location and has great space for children's ministry. We are pretty excited about it.

Venture

We finally got something up on Venture's website- Venturecommunity.org. Hopefully in the next few weeks it will start to take more shape. On May 15th we will have our last vision casting meeting and then we will transition to weekly small groups as we build towards our first preview service on July 12th. I am sure these next three months will go quickly. Thanks for your continued prayers.

Denton Project Update

We finally decided on a name for our church and purchased our domain name. Our website should start to have some stuff on it soon, but until then check out this preview for our site and our name.

MacChurch

Within a few days of getting my first Mac laptop I was hooked because of the seemless interface with my Ipod, camcorder, camera, calender, phone, etc. Since all of these things work together so smoothly I have ended up use them more often and more efficiently . I hadn’t purchased many CDs in the last few years, but once I had easy downloading capabilities from Itunes I began purchasing music almost weekly. As I am now about to get my third Mac laptop I must admit that I am committed to the brand.

So the question is how do we develop a church that can be as seamless as Mac? How can we let all of the expressions of our Christianity go smoothly together instead of the seemingly disjointed church experience of which many of us have grown tired or just begrudgingly accepted. How does our personal reading of scripture and other spiritual disciples get incorporated into our church life? How can we serve our local community with our church community? How does what our kids experience on Sunday morning affect them and our family throughout the week? How does what we hear on Sunday morning interface with our small group? I know that just as I was less likely to drive to a music store and buy a CD, but very likely to download music off of Itunes, many people will be more willing to engage in the Christ life if they have that same accessability.

My answer-simplicity. The more the words, the less the meaning (Eccl 6:11). We need to speak less words and do less activity for more meaning. Getting people busy or always at the building (if you have one) doesn’t produce more Christ-likeness just as hanging aroud the biology department doesn’t make you a doctor. What makes someone like Christ is enabling them to embark on the venture of following Jesus. We need to do a few things that all explicitly tie to a singular vision of Christ-likeness.

What do you think is the best way to a seamless church?