Monday, May 2, 2011

K F A

I love our church (www.kenoshafirst.com). We are big believers at KFA in being grace-filled people - accepting others in all their messiness as they come to discover more of Christ step-by-step.

We are all about relevance, believing the Gospel must be contextualized in our present culture, placing it into vessels and containers people are drinking from today. We believe communicating in irrelevant ways is a sin.

At the same time, we believe in being outward-focused in our approach with the Gospel and with church. In that vein, I found some comments I'll share with you that apply to our heart and motivation as KFA-ers ...


1. If you’re just looking for the next cool thing in town, that isn't KFA. We are all about creativity, but we're not about 'cool.' We want to grow by conversion growth, not church-goer transfer growth.

2. If you’re a Christ-follower and you don’t like your current church, you will very quickly probably find a reason not to like KFA.

3. If your mindset is that of a consumer wanting to “go to church” once a week for a nice show, you'll be unhappy at KFA. We are not a Sunday show, we are a community of disciples on a unified mission.

4. If you want religion, we will disappoint you. KFA is a church built on the radical gospel of grace.

5. If you have a personal agenda, you should know God has already given us our vision, our mission, our purposes, our values and our model for doing ministry.

6. If you think KFA will be a nice church that doesn't grow and where everybody knows your name and where you can put my cell number on your speed dial ...

7. We have a strong conviction that the church is not the building; the church is the people --- people on mission --- people constantly looking beyond themselves unselfishly. One of our favorite phrases is: 'The Church is now leaving the building.'

7. If you want to join us and still hold onto your comfortable life - know right now that you must lose your life.

If all of that is A-OK, we welcome you.

And be blessed.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Very clear. Great material for the KFA new membership class. Cherlyn