American churches have a hard road to haul if they want to truly reach people for Christ.
Some of the toughest challenges will be for those who are trying to make the transition from what they "were" to what God wants them to "be" now.
I know, cause I work at one of those churches. Now I am not saying that what we were "before" the change was necessarily wrong, but it just wasn't the direction the leadership felt like we needed to head down.

The guy who spearheaded the shift for New Hope was Ray Cotton, who is the Senior Pastor and part of our Lead Team. At staff meeting the other day he talked again about why we are making the shift from one way of doing things, to another.
He said, "We had to die as a church and be resurrected as a mission."

How often do we try to reinvent something or re-purpose a program when in fact all we are doing is prolonging the problem.

Here's to being resurrected as a mission.