Archive Entry #4: June 19, 2008

FCCEM.org went live on April 23, 2014. As today’s archive entry makes obvious, we started talking about FCCEM.org – or at least our church’s need for a website – last decade.

Of course we didn’t actually create a website last decade; we just talked about one. But “The Net” team referenced in today’s archive entry nonetheless showcased an admirable and necessary character trait for modern churches – a willingness to think outside the box, at least outside the particular traditional, conventional church box that endorses communication only when accomplished by voice or on paper.

I offer today’s archive entry not because it’s well written (it really isn’t!) nor because it shines a favorable light to acknowledge that it took us six years to open a website (it doesn’t). I offer today’s entry 1) because it reflects a recurring theme in my newsletter columns over the years – the need for our church to be willing to change (there is MUCH more on this theme to come as the Archive unfolds, including its debut appearance, during the first few months of my FCCEM ministry in 1985), and 2) to offer my thanks and respect to the people who over the years have embraced the need for our church to change, and in so doing rejected personal preferences, even risked self-interest, to support the cause, a cavalry of people that certainly included those who served on “The Net” team in 2008, the people who first directed our attention to the online Promised Land.

Modern churches must be willing to do whatever is necessary to connect people to Jesus. Here’s how I made that point in June 2008:

COMING NEXT: From January 2012, a match made in Heaven: science and religion. Find it HERE.