Church Wars: Attack of the Clones

A short time ago in a galaxy not so far away, church leader’s of the Christian movement have secretly begun building churches that are clones of the empires called mega churches in an attempt to capture the market share of the heathen sinners and  become the next big thing, but there is a chosen one who stands on the side on non-conformity and will fight the Imperialist scum. His name is James Dalman…

OK, so I am going a little overboard but the script is not too far fetched!

Churches are duping others.  They are trying to clone themselves into Mars Hill (either one), Life Church.tv, Fellowship Church.tv, Willow Creek, NorthPoint Community Church, Saddleback Church,  National Community Church, Granger Community Church, and so on.

For the love of the Kingdom and our sanity, please stop.  Look within, instead of looking out.  I get the opportunity to visit with a lot of Jesus loving and sincere pastors and church planters but if I hear one more tell me “we want to emulate what ______________ church has done because that’s us” , I am going to take my blaster and use it on them, and no, it won’t be set for stun.

I’m not trying to be mean but NO it’s not you, it is them.  Be yourself and start finding a way to break the mold.  Why do we feel we need to clone the superstar or walk in the shadows of somebody else?  I could personally use a lot of improvement but there’s no way that I want to be anyone but James Dalman as screwed up as I can be sometimes (but I might take the financial security of Bill Gates).  And I encourage church leaders and their teams to do the same.

You are screwed up and you aren’t the best.  That is absolutely OK!  Find what makes you unique and shout it out loud and stop asking me to make you into one of those other churches because I won’t do it and I can’t!  I can and will help you to discover and develop your brand though if you want me to…just as long as you don’t mind if I bring my lightsaber.