Yesterday we talked a little bit about what our weekend services will look like. Although I don’t know a single descriptive term, I want to fill you in on our personality because that will have a direct effect on our services. Again, I don’t know a single descriptive term to describe our personality.
Here’s what I envision when I see Freedom Ridge … we are going to be a church for people who don’t like church, so that means we’re gonna do things differently. Our format will be different; as soon as we can swing it we will be video intensive. We will have man-on-the-street interviews, video illustrations, and I will probably even teach some of the points of my lesson by video (so it will be on-the-scene illustrations, but I wouldn’t do this every week.)
The lessons will be Bible-based, concise, and practical; that means you will get something on Sunday that you can use in your life on Monday.
As far as music, we will be guitar driven. I am not opposed to using today’s culture to make a point (look at Jesus’ parables), so if there is a good secular song that will fit the theme for the day, the band will play it. The style of the band will be rockish. I’m especially praying for a couple electric guitar players that can really rock out. Again, I don’t want us to be the typical mellow-sounding-contemporary-church-worship-team that you’d normally expect.
Weekend services are just one part of Freedom Ridge. One trait that I want us to really be known for is community service. We will serve in a variety of ways with no strings attached purely because God loves people and so do we. If we ever disappeared for whatever reason, I want the community to miss us.
So if I had to boil it down to 24 words, I would say, “Freedom Ridge will be an externally focused and practical church that hits people where they live using culturally relevant means to fulfill our mission.”
Sound like something you might like to be involved in?? Let me know. We’re developing our launch team right now!
Nate,
How’s it going gathering and putting together the launch team? How many people do you have on board right now? How many would you like to have before your launch date? When are you launching?
Curt