I wonder.
\nI wonder how many people, if we actually asked them, keep coming back to our churches because of our stellar Sunday productions.
\nI wonder if we ask the right people.
\nI wonder if we stopped, for a while, if people would keep coming.
\nI wonder if we turned off the lights and pulled the band if more people would come or go.
\nI wonder if we flipped the teaching time and music time, if it would matter.
\nI wonder if first time visitors are more concerned with what happens outside the auditorium than what happens inside it.
\nI wonder if the things we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve rebelled against are the exact things we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve become.
\nI wonder if church buildings will ever be used more than 2% a week.
\nI wonder if there has been more energy put into our Easter weekend services than our neighbors on the left and right.<\/p>\n
I wonder with all the talk of social justice, why those friends keep walking by homeless people without even a smile.
\nI wonder when we will stop arguing about how to run the church and begin to start running our families.
\nI wonder how disrespected my dad feels by my generation of preachers saying his way is the wrong way.
\nI wonder how disrespected my generation of preachers will feel when our kids say our way is the wrong way.
\nI wonder when church envy will be replaced with prayer for others to succeed.
\nI wonder if churches without buildings will ever realize how good they have it.
\nI wonder when church planting became an industry.
\nI wonder if we know that our opinions are just that, opinions.
\nI wonder if those who say my church is an inch deep and a mile wide know that they would actually drown in the inch we provide.<\/p>\n
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