A few days ago I was in conversation with two of LifeBridge Staff Team about the back door. If your not familiar with that term, it is the term us religious professionals (haha) us for people that don't stick. They come in and see what your about and then slide through the back door, drop out etc. I have been thinking about this a lot lately, so I began doing some interviewing with some folks about why they dropped away.
We like to think that they are not coming because we're NOT friendly, or the music is not clicking, or the speaker is not bringing it, or our coffee is NOT Fusions, or the kids program stinks. Well, I think all of those things for us are working well. Could they be improved, well sure they can. But does that stuff matter? Sure it does, but think about it. People can go to ITunes and down load the best music available. They can down load for FREE the greatest communicators in the world.....yes world. They can go to Fusions and get the best coffee in town. What would help us close the back door. I'm convinced it is one thing and one thing only.
It is the very thing everyone wants, but is NOT willing to pursue. It is a struggle to make time for it, it cost a ton in emotional energy and we have so little margin in our life. It could make us healthy, but we will choose to be unhealthy as opposed to live in this. This one thing is RELATIONSHIPS. I am convinced that the greatest healer, connector, fullier in Life is the relationship with have with God. I also believe the human relationships are the second greatest. If we could have genuine relationships with people in small groups we would see the back door closing. How do we do this with a culture that is moving so fast or doesn't see the need........? Maybe another blog for another day.
Philip Thurman
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