Exciting, stupid and curious

This week could be crazy one. Not in terms of volume of work, although I have plenty, but more what it builds up to. The Chapel has its first meeting on Sunday evening.

I am not trying to be dramatic, because it is just one meeting and currently I can count the potential attendees of two hands, but I am curious to see what is going to do.

I feel like we are breaking rules all over the place. Conventional church planting wisdom seems to suggest that we should start a number of small groups in the area and then build up to a Sunday meeting. We should also do a number of practice meetings before “launching” or “going public”.

We are ignoring these rules. Not because we are particularly rebellious but because we have no choice. The Chapel is not a church plant but we are looking to gather a crowd and hopefully create a mission focused community that will be an important part of CCM. However, we currently have no people in the location we are to start a meeting (Fallowfield/Rusholme).

Exciting, very exciting. Or maybe stupid. But it must be better to look stupid having a go, than not having a go because you’re too scared. We shall see.