I worshiped last week with the Cascade Hills Church of Christ, a church plant that launched at the same time that we did almost five years ago. We drove down to Salem on Sunday morning to be with them. Jason, the leader there, referred to that day as their church Saturday. What he meant by this was that Jesus died on Friday and resurrected on Sunday, and on Saturday God was just…well…dead. Followers of Christ celebrate the backwards nature that God brings life out of death, and on that Sunday Cascade Hills was dying. They had not yet experienced the full reality of the life that would happen as a result of their death, and so they celebrated their “Saturday”. Jason said some powerful words that resonated with me. He listed some of the top things he had learned in planting Cascade Hills.

1. Responsibility makes you old (makes you grow up)
2. The best way to learn something is to teach it or do it
3. There is more to do than we’ll ever be able to do
4. When everything goes wrong…things then tend to be just about right
5. In order to do church you’ve got to go where people are
6. A few people can make a huge impact
7. Prayer works
8. Building faith takes time
9. Failure and faithfulness often go hand in hand
10. People make the church (not vision statements, strategies, buildings, programs, etc.)

Related posts:

1. Listening to Amos Lee on a Saturday
2. Sunday: What’s the Point?
3. Changes