Generate – a midweek worship service for 12-30 year olds?

I went last night.  And it was amazing.  There were 9 baptisms that ranged in age from middle school girl to college graduate.  The worship team was phenomenal, and mostly because they were really trying to lead people to the throne of God and not just display their talent.  It helped that the lead of that group is a young lady with a seriously penetrating voice.  The service is held in the main sanctuary, and there were over 2000 people in attendance. They have a room right off of the sanctuary, called the “Living Room,” where people are directed to go for the invitation. 

But that wasn’t the most affirming thing.  The most affirming thing was that everything they did was in your face and unashamedly bold.  They used a hymn to close the service, before the talk they broke up the congregation into groups of 2-3 people to pray for one another, at the invitation somewhere between 10-20 people came forward, they took up an offering, they shared two stories about people in their congregation and while the talk was all over the place it was impactful because of the transparency of the speaker.

It’s without question where I feel like worship will need to go in the next ten years in order to be relevent to the maority of unchurched people.  Why ten years?  Because I’m in California, and it’ll take that long for the culture in Central Kentucky to be where it is now in CA.  🙂

So, I think Harmony should be expecting Andrew to begin to need to use the main sanctuary, and I think that service may need to eventually become a combo of Journey and what we were trying to do with the Arcade.

I’d love to see comments on that. 🙂