KSP Reggie McNeal

Last Thursday we (the leadership team) went down to Columbus for a Kingdom Synergy Partnership (KSP) meeting. It was a pretty exciting day. A new network was formed to plant another church in Cleveland and a Network from Kentucky wants to fully fund another plant in Cleveland. For a city that was once lacking in Restoration churches it is getting ready to have four. Wow! What an impact for the kingdom in a city that desperately needs some resurrection.

We also had the privilege to listen to Reggie McNeal. Reggie McNeal is a church consultant that really has a pulse on the shifts churches need to make in order to become God led. He really stressed the importance of changing the scorecard. Typically the churches scorecard looks at attendance of church activities as success. That the destination for people is the church, not Jesus or the abundant life.

Jesus came to give people life both physical and eternal. We have the tendency see the church as the destination when the Biblical truth is that Jesus is the destination.

As church leaders we need to determine what our scorecard is going to look like. For example, Northwest could decide that their scorecard is going to include church planting. So we decide how many church plants we are going to be involved in over the next ten years. We may decide we are going to bring some life to a low income housing area, which can change the complexion of our city.

The idea is to take the church to the streets rather than asking people to go to church. The destination becomes Jesus, not the church. The truth of this strategy is that the church will begin to grow as it focuses on bringing Jesus to the world.