Would anyone care?
WOULD ANYONE CARE? I have been reading through Darrin Patrick and Matt Carters book "For the City". It has been challenging and convicting to me as a pastor and leader. The question that has weighed on me most heavily as I have read this is, "If FBC Seminole shut it's doors, would anyone in Seminole know we were gone and would they even care?" This question was posed in chapter one by Matt Carter in regards to his own church in Austin Texas. Stop for a minute and ask yourself this question. Would anyone care if your church shut their doors for good, would they even notice? The answer is haunting and sad because for many of our churches the answer is that they wouldn't. Why is this happening? For many churches their concern is not the community around them and reaching them with the gospel but instead it is focused on programs, finances, and numbers. Nothing, by the way, is inherently wrong with these things but instead of these...