Hosting Pastors Today
One of the things that I love to do is host churches that want to come down and hang out. Last night a group of seven pastors and leaders flew in to spend some time with us touring our campuses. They are from Grace Fellowship in Paradise Texas which is northwest of Ft Worth. Pastor Brandon and I had dinner with them last night and really enjoyed hanging out and talking church. Great group of guys and we laughed like crazy for a couple of hours.
Today we’ll begin a three to four campus tour in an attempt to show them some very different facilities so they can get some ideas for how they want to begin their Multi Site journey. I hope they take away some great ideas and feel like they learned from some of the things we’ve done pretty well, and probably more importantly, from the things we’ve done that just didn’t work out all that well.
There is no one right way to do Multi Site, were not going to attempt to show them the right way, just show them the way were doing it, at least the latest version, and hope they can take some things back that will help them design a system that fits their DNA and culture of the their church.
Before I ever went on staff I toured a number of churches in Texas visiting with Pastors trying to learn more about what this new journey was going to be like for me, and in that journey I was treated pretty bad at a church I respected and had driven a long way to get to, in the parking lot of that church, three months before I ever became a pastor, I promised God I would always be available for the men and women of God He would send my way, I can honestly say I have kept that promise to Him, and the funny thing is, it has blessed me more than the folks who have come to spend time with us.
If you get a chance to host leaders from other churches, throw out the red carpet and love on them, and give them that most valuable of commodities that every leader really doesn’t have enough of, time, and God will do things in the life of your church you can’t imagine. Loving on Gods called leaders and their churches honors God in a huge way, and what could be better than knowing you’re one of His churches He can count on!!
John
