I have a bit of a quandary that I've been pondering. We have simultaneous services at our church; one is live with the pastor and the other is broadcast closed circuit to another building on the church campus. The remote service has a live band on stage for worship and I act as host to facilitate the service. At the end of each service they have an 'invitation' at the live service and we stop the feed and do our own invitation live.
(I'll take a second in case you aren't familiar with the concept of the invitation at church to explain. After the sermon, the band/choir leads in congregational singing while the pastor invites those who are led and willing to come forward and be saved, accept Christ, be converted--whichever term you are comfortable with. Or you can come down and request membership or pray, etc.)
I'd like to ask anyone who reads this to let me know what you think about the concept. I think ours needs to change somehow--maybe radically; maybe even go away--but I'm not sure what needs to be done. If you have some ideas that you think would be cool, or maybe something you've seen done somewhere that seemed to work well please leave a comment and let me know. If it's going to be done it should be a time that evokes response. One thing that makes it hard is being away from the live sermon, but that may not be true either. Who knows? I'm just trying to get some dialogue going and see if we can figure something out. Becoming a follower of Christ is the most important decision anyone will ever make, and I would like to be able to figure out a way to help them take that step.
Post your comments and let's see what comes up.
Mike
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