Sometimes, I really wonder how this whole evergreen thing will ever work... seriously.

We have (foolishly?) broken nearly every rule of church planting I can think of... We didn't start with a bang. We don't advertise. We provide little in the way of programs to attract people. (For example: our kids ministry for young kids is a patch of carpet and a tub of toys and for older kids some really faithful people trying to teach about the attributes of God.) Our Sunday mornings are exercises in community, dialogue, and (we hope) spirituality... not a polished, linear sequence with good production values that starts on time, ends on time and always entertains, but a time when we worship God and hear from Him through His Word and through the voices of the community. We have no structure, method or mechanism (other than the gifts God gives us as a community) for dealing with people- for teaching them, loving them, welcoming/keeping track of them or healing them. Our home groups have no coherent strategy or feel... nor does the rest of what we do, for that matter. In short, we're a mess. A beautiful, meaningful, sometimes frustrating, Godward mess... but still a mess.

So how is that supposed to thrive? How is it even supposed to survive?

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