The Faith To Act

Yesterday I let you know how excited I was by the decisions made at our all church meeting last night. In order to keep this post brief I will just fill you in on the highlights that affect our church directly and not all of the details that affect our relationship with our denomination (although that turned out very good too!)

I'm excited to begin moving forward with a name change for our church. This doesn't mean that we are pulling out of the denomination, (Friends by the way), it just means a different title above the door. Tim Stevens had an excellent post a while ago on the issue of denominational churches changing their names. 

The other change is in the way we do business and operate within the church. We are working on restructuring the church. I've heard Andy Stanley and other church leaders say, repeatedly, "systems affect behaviors". An organization is only as strong as it's skeleton. I've been sharing this kind of information with leadership for many years now. 

The decisions that were approved at the meeting the other night didn't just happen over night, in fact they were the result of years of discussions with lots of people, hours and hours of prayer, and hundreds of hours invested collectively by leaders. It has been a long time in the making just to get to the point where we had permission by the congregation to move forward in changing the name of the church and restructuring. Because of the investment of energy, prayer, and time; last night was just so key in moving the ball down the field as a church. 

You may be wondering, "What will the new name be?"... I don't know. "What will the new structure look like exactly?"... I don't know. What I do know is that our church listens to God and has the faith to act on His leading.