Regrouping Again

Ministry seems to be a constant balance between charging ahead and falling back, then again that's how wars are won right? Some of you may have noticed that, for a time I had an icon on the landing page of the website for something called The Jesus Experiment. This was an idea that Mike and I conceived last year for a program that would integrate music, theater, story-telling and some killer audience participation in an effort to help people think outside the box about the ways in which we could reach our world for Christ.

Our goal was to offer it to churches, beginning with our home church, free of charge. In other words, Sound of the Trumpet Ministries would pay all expenses right down to the utilities and the custodians. We thought we couldn't loose. After all, who wouldn't like to have an effective and artistic program that challenged people to grow in their understanding of ministry dropped on their doorstep for free? The answer: evidently everyone. We shopped the idea first to our church and then to everyone on the Sound of the Trumpet email list and found no takers. Now granted, much of the known world has still never heard of this program and we remain firmly convinced that it is, not only a great idea, but one that God has called us to pursue.

Therefore we will continue to seek a venue for The Jesus Experiment - perhaps even one outside of the church itself. Now there's a novel idea. But, for now I have removed it from the website, because I think something else may happen first. Stay tuned, you never know where God will take us next. Like I said before, there's a time to charge forward and a time to fall back. I just wish Kenny Rogers were here to tell me when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.

Be God's
Greg