Reflections on Sunday.

This week, we had a wonderful Sunday! The morning services went well with a decent attendance. Then Sunday evening, we were offering a free showing of the movie Fireproof. It is a great movie and I was excited to see a packed house! Our church is an old movie theater, so it makes sense for us to use movies to reach out to our community. The great thing was that as I welcomed people in, only about 1/2 of them were people who go to our church. The rest were a mix of church people who just wanted to go out to a good clean movie, and unsaved people who were just there for something free to do and had heard it was a good movie. We used it as a kick off for a new Sunday evening series on marriage improvement using the curriculum designed to go with the Fireproof movie. The point of this blog is to share with you some success, but more importantly, to challenge your church to use its facilities in a way that makes sense in your community. Not everyone is meeting in an old theater...(Which is a good thing.) Take a new look at what your church has to offer the community. Take a bold step and see if the "if you build it they will come" principle will work. Also, if you haven't seen the movie Fireproof, it has a great salvation message and a wonderful message of redeeming a seemingly hopeless marriage. I highly recommend it. If you have a young couples group in your church, it could be a great activity to get together at someone's house and show it. Have an awesome day! I hope you have some new thoughts for your ministry.