bag of goodies

I'd like to have a "bag of goodies" to take away from these 2 years helping start a church in the middle of a post-christian society. Here is one of 'em:

In order to reach those nobody is reaching, we need to do things nobody is doing. I really do believe that mantra. Edinburgh has hundreds of churches, yet there is such a high percentage of those that simply do not feel like they have a place in the church. I feel like Eikon has caught on to something in reaching the arts and music community, as well as the twenty-something.

If we had the money, or the time to dream these wild and creative ideas, then we could do some of these cool things and reach nobody is reaching. I've heard that and thought that so many times.

However, we have everything we need to reach the people God wants us to reach in Edinburgh. We are not missing anything. When you don't have everything that someone else has, it will drive you to innovate.

Great formula: limited resources + increasing passion = exponential innovation.

If we will stop wining about what we don't have, see what we do have, and become more passionate (not) about getting people in church, but getting church out into the community, all of a sudden we will have exponential innovation and create a culture of change.