We're Full

I don't know if you've noticed or not, but the church is full (at least on Sunday AM during the "late" worship times). You would notice that if you could find a parking space to go inside during the late-service time slot. What a great problem to have, but it is a problem. I don't want to stop at "Wow! Isn't this great, we're full!" I want to move on from there and say, okay what do we do now?

One thing that research shows is that there is no such thing as being stagnant, you are either growing or declining. Are we content saying "We've reached 1300 worshipping on a weekend and we're satisfied"? I haven't found the bible verse yet that says "Go and make disciples till you reach x-number of people, then hunker down into maintenance mode."

It's going to take a church-wide effort to continue to grow the disciples at CLC. Here are some suggestions...

1. Go on Saturday to worship. There are over 100 people on each side (Sanctuary and Worship Center) that worship on Saturdays now. Imagine if those 200+ disciples were on campus for Sunday AM services!!
2. Get up earlier and go to the 8:00 or 8:30AM services. Families seem to have no trouble getting up early on Saturday for any number of child-related activities/sports. What makes Sunday different, especially when you consider the discipleship vs. membership aspect to what we do at Carmel Lutheran Church. Services are basically identical in both venues to what happens in their late-service counterpart.
3. Do either or both of the above suggestions 1 or 2 times a month, mix it up, meet new disciples.
4. If you do happen to attend early services, and then go to bible class, try to leave soon after class to give a parking space to someone just arriving.

If you can't go on a mission trip, or are afraid to talk to your neighbor about Christ, you CAN make a slight adjustment to your schedule to help as we seek to REACH OUT to our community.