I messed up...again!
On Sunday, 10 September we debuted a number of new things at church. We had two services. We moved the connection center. And we had our very first video message.
We've been talking about moving to two services for a month. Every morning, during our Connection Notes time I have mentioned that we are moving to two services. Some people didn't understand why still, but they came up and asked questions and we were able to help them with the overall vision.
We've been talking about video messages and how they fit into the overall vision as well, but not from up front on Sundays. Our talking about video messages has always been in connection with the vision we have of RCC having multiple locations. While those multiple locations would be physically in different places, their uniting item would be the message received would be the same at every venue. The teaching pastor for the day would be either live or video at each and every venue. This allows us to unite each location with the same teaching so all of our Connection Groups are doing the same homework and every person gets the same, consistant message. At every service in every venue we would always have both live worship and a live point pastor.
This is my role at Provo. I am the point pastor. I think because we only have the one venue right now people don't really understand all of that. That even though Dean is the teaching pastor most days, I am the point pastor. That's all part of the learning experience, but each venue would always have a point pastor live who would uniquely care for the RCC'ers spiritual needs who attend that venue.
So here's where I messed up...I didn't tell anybody the video service was coming. That's right, even though everybody knew on 10 September we were having two services, nobody was told that the second service would not be live, but rather Memorex. It wasn't malicious, it was because it just didn't cross my mind. I know, that sounds fairly lame, but remember I'm talking about video services and how we are going to be able to pull this off in a harware and software and personnel way all the time. This is an ongoing discussion I have constantly. Even on Sunday we weren't sure we were going to be able to record the first service until it actually started...things were very hectic! Then the decision to show the video for second service was not made until 0955...10 minutes after the pre-worship time of second service had started. Dean and I had a hurried meeting in the hallway discussing whether or not we were going to go with the video and decided it was important enough to get it started.
So that was my mistake. I did not give people notice that this service was going to be different. And I feel bad about that. I really should have told the church that was changing before we made the move. Of all the comment card received, only two had something negative to say about the video service and of those two only one was really negative. I know if we had answered some of these questions beforehand it would have been a better experience for all so I'll have to discuss it a bit more on Sunday.
We've been talking about moving to two services for a month. Every morning, during our Connection Notes time I have mentioned that we are moving to two services. Some people didn't understand why still, but they came up and asked questions and we were able to help them with the overall vision.
We've been talking about video messages and how they fit into the overall vision as well, but not from up front on Sundays. Our talking about video messages has always been in connection with the vision we have of RCC having multiple locations. While those multiple locations would be physically in different places, their uniting item would be the message received would be the same at every venue. The teaching pastor for the day would be either live or video at each and every venue. This allows us to unite each location with the same teaching so all of our Connection Groups are doing the same homework and every person gets the same, consistant message. At every service in every venue we would always have both live worship and a live point pastor.
This is my role at Provo. I am the point pastor. I think because we only have the one venue right now people don't really understand all of that. That even though Dean is the teaching pastor most days, I am the point pastor. That's all part of the learning experience, but each venue would always have a point pastor live who would uniquely care for the RCC'ers spiritual needs who attend that venue.
So here's where I messed up...I didn't tell anybody the video service was coming. That's right, even though everybody knew on 10 September we were having two services, nobody was told that the second service would not be live, but rather Memorex. It wasn't malicious, it was because it just didn't cross my mind. I know, that sounds fairly lame, but remember I'm talking about video services and how we are going to be able to pull this off in a harware and software and personnel way all the time. This is an ongoing discussion I have constantly. Even on Sunday we weren't sure we were going to be able to record the first service until it actually started...things were very hectic! Then the decision to show the video for second service was not made until 0955...10 minutes after the pre-worship time of second service had started. Dean and I had a hurried meeting in the hallway discussing whether or not we were going to go with the video and decided it was important enough to get it started.
So that was my mistake. I did not give people notice that this service was going to be different. And I feel bad about that. I really should have told the church that was changing before we made the move. Of all the comment card received, only two had something negative to say about the video service and of those two only one was really negative. I know if we had answered some of these questions beforehand it would have been a better experience for all so I'll have to discuss it a bit more on Sunday.
posted by Pastor Tom at 7:22 AM
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