Brian McLaren Info

Details are still being worked out for Brian McLaren's visit. Time and other info will be passed along soon.

It is open to everyone. Please come and bring someone!

From his book, A New Kind of Christian,

I would say to stop counting conversions, because our whole approach to conversions is so, I don't know, mechanistic and consumeristic and individualistic and controlling. Instead, I'd encourage us to count conversations, because conversation implies a real relationship, and if we make our goal to establish relationships and engage in authentic conversations, I know that conversions will happen. But if we keep trying to convert people, we'll simply drive them away. They're sick of our sales pitches and our formulas.

Does anyone else's church have a running total of baptisms/new members for the year?