[Not] Your Average Church - Part 4: "Your God Is Irrelevant In My Life"
Over the last three weeks we have been working on a sermon series together entitled, "[Not] Your Average Church: Why We Need Real Church for Real People ." Throughout this series we've been coming face to face with a crisis that the Church in America has yet to fully address: the fact that people have stopped coming to church. What we've been doing as part of this sermon series is studying the four biggest reasons that people give as to why they don't attend church, and then we've been turning those negatives into positives. Our goal is to identify the ways that we, as a church, can overcome the objections that people might have as to why they don't want to go to church. People say that they feel judged when they come to church--so we said the church needs to be open to everyone and practice radical hospitality. People say that they feel lectured when they come to church--so we said the church needs to engage in fearless conversations with peopl...