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What are some examples of ways small churches can think innovatively?

A church called Convergence in Irvine, California, meets in a theater in the mall. That isn't unusual; a lot of churches do that because a theater is easy to rent on Sunday morning. But the reason they do it is because years ago the pastor was at that theater see a movie, and he stood at a fountain right outside the theater and he looked around and thought, What if we brought church to where the people are already? He went to the theater and they said they'd love to have a church there on a Sunday morning. So now they do that, and the first twenty minutes of their church time is spent outside around that fountain, serving water, coffee, donuts, and snacks to the regulars and also to anyone who happens to wander by.

And the first thing they do when they head in to church is not sing. They do the message first, then end it with worship, so that if a brand-new person comes in—and it actually happens that someone is coming to see a movie, sees this group of people, is greeted, ...

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