Friday, May 4, 2012

HOW TO AVOID GETTING STUCK IN 1999




In September of 1999, we launched worship at the Soundside Campus of Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church with 590 worshipers the first Sunday.   We worked Charles Arn’s 1990’s check-list for how to start a new worship service as if it were Bible, and we had a good result.  September 16, 1999 remains one of the most thrilling days of my whole life.  We did a lot of things right and a few things wrong, but God was very good – and we added hundreds of new folks to active participation in an organized Christian faith community in the year that followed.