Here's an interesting five-minute video from Youtube via Revelife.
If Church Were Like StarbucksI'm not sure how I react to it, except in flashes that are obvious - locked doors, cool, measuring glances without any kindness, placing hoops in the way of someone who just wants "a cup of coffee" - clearly not welcoming, or even treating others with common respect, therefore showing what bad church behavior looks like to an outsider. I get that part and agree with that much.
But is this making the argument that church should be marketed, or in more churchy-terms, completely seeker-oriented? Before I can form a clearer opinion about this I think I'd want to watch it a few more times and think about the point of church (to glorify God, yes, but reaching that goal how?), and how things worked in the early church, and what my church is like, and what characterizes churches where I have felt welcomed.
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