A different kind of church?

It takes all kinds to reach all kinds. Many tastes, many flavors!

I hail from a city of some 150,000 people in Northern Illinois just outside Chicago. Rockford is known for having more parks per capita than any other city in America. It is also known for its great number of churches. There are numerous churches of every stripe. Yet, even in my hometown if it were to experience true revival there would not be enough seats for the seekers.

My hometown has not grown nor shrunk in population in decades. Yet even my hometown has been blessed by church plants. With new vision and energy one recent church now numbers in the thousands. Why? It takes all kinds to reach all kinds. Many tastes many flavors!

Every time I drive through the Gainesville/Haymarket area it seems a new restaurant appears. I find it interesting that in any given town there are scores of restaurants each serving food with each its distinctive flavor. It takes all kinds to reach all kinds. Even in a city saturated with restaurants you will find new ones opening weekly. The new opening restaurant is not a statement that there are deficiencies in the surrounding restaurants, but simply an offer of a different taste to the overwhelming amount of people that hungry.

See Why I am planting a church, What kind of new church, & Why a church in Gainesville or Haymarket?

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