It was a fairly straight-forward request really: Could our church provide some administrative and bookkeeping assistance to a new church that was just opening up just down the road? It would have been perfectly fine to have declined the request because we didn’t have the resources. But we did have the resources. We also had people willing to do the actual work. The request wasn’t even remotely unreasonable.
As our small congregation sat in a special “business meeting”, called specifically to discuss the request, a few members spoke about characteristics of the requesting church. It was a small Baptist church, from what I recall, that really had a desire to reach the younger generation in our community for Christ. They would have “contemporary worship services”. (more…)
