Did we add to the list of reasons that it is incredibly difficult to plant a church in Boston that several times a year you get nasty weather exactly on Saturday night-Sunday morning? Wait, that never stopped the Puritans from doing church. Oh yeah, they were walking and had no choice but to attend Sunday services. We’ve got a dozen infants and people driving from decent distances and a lease on a space that doesn’t plow on weekends and so when there are 35 mile per hour winds and 4-6 inches of snow and the roads are icing up you have to cancel. Totally bummed.
You know how this whole season of prayer about overcrowding has been a back and forth conversation? Here we go again…
Side 1 – “Today is a typical example of why having expensive space is foolhardy at this point in this city. We have lost 2 out of the last 3 Sunday and their giving. And it’s only January 3. Planting a church here is not about Sunday space or even Sunday gatherings. What matters is deeper than that. And all our soulcare communities will be meeting this week anyway, so people will have contact with each other.”
Side 2 – “Shut up about the giving nonsense. If our people are committed to the Gospel and this local, redemptive work of God, they’ll give faithfully whether or not it’s Abominable Snowman weather. We just need to call them to it, communicate well. And if we had our own space we could be worshiping tonight, full force, instead of not having a lease that goes past 1pm on our space. And our own space would come with snow plowing, too.”
Side 1 – “Still not worth it. Smaller, more flexible is better.”
Side 2 – “What if we were the ’smallest’ bigger church in these Unites States? What if we were structured in such a way that Sundays were a bigger gathering but everyone was in smaller community, being discipled and growing deeply in Christ? Air war + ground war both!”
Side 1 – “Let’s all just move in with the Waugh’s in Tampa and plant down there.”
Side 2 – “I’m good.”