A new attempt at an old idea
This is hard to admit. Yes, I’m the pastor of the church but I’m also a web designer / developer. You would think I would do all these amazing things for our church website to wow visitors. I mean, I have the ability to do that. In fact, I’ve done that in the past. I [...]
Rescued
The issue of human sex trafficking and child exploitation is very hidden because of the severity of emotional discomfort associated with it. There are, around the world, 27 million people caught in human slavery; 2 million of which are exploited sexually. Atlanta GA is #1 in the nation for human sex trafficking. When I discovered this [...]
How about a message snapshot?
I have been trying to figure out how to handle posting our messages online for a very long time. If I didn’t get asked all the time I probably wouldn’t post them at all. I can say, with the utmost humility, that I don’t know why I’m asked for this so often. I believe God [...]
What’s the Exchange up to now?
That’s a great question and one with a very busy answer. Right now we are completely focused on being a people of extreme generosity. This year the focus is on providing for children locally and abroad. We are in the process of of teaming up with the Boys & Girls Club of Cleveland, Love146, Angel [...]
The #1 question asked at the Exchange
A church moving into a new location can be a very exciting thing. It creates anticipation and buzz. All kinds of questions begin to arise. At the Exchange my desire is that we would be a place to get answers to all those questions. No necessarily by any one individual or sermon but the exchange that takes [...]
No More Tithes & Offerings
I don’t know about you and you might find this strange coming from a pastor but I don’t like tithes & offerings. This isn’t a debate as to whether tithing is even a biblically mandated New Testament church practice or not. I feel the terminology sets us on the wrong path. If you look at [...]
Urgency mixed with impatiece and apprehension
This is a big step for us but I wonder if it’s too big for the time we have allotted for it. It’s a step we have needed to take for a long time but I was naive then and unwilling to lead in that direction until now. Now that I’ve come to terms with [...]
Exchange Renovations – Part 1
Last night 5 men embarked on a journey to take out a load bearing wall and replace it with an appropriate support system. The funny thing is that four of us are really desk jockey’s. But we all have a strong work ethic and got busy stripping walls and all kinds of other demolition. A little [...]
Ideas for the Exchange’s new location
In my last post I shared some of the things that I feel we’ve taken away from our previous meeting spaces. In this post I want to share some ideas that will protect the things we loved and minimize the things we didn’t like so much about those locations. This is still in the conceptual [...]
What we’ve learned from previous locations
In light of the transition to our own full-time location I thought it might be a good idea to explore how we will try to maintain the things that we have learned about ourselves throughout our journey as the Exchange. What We Learned From Meeting in a Theater Teaching: One thing I have taken away [...]