When is the last time you evaluated your religious activity? It is easy to fall into a spiritual routine.

Read my Bible. Check.

Go to church. Check.

Pray at dinner and bedtime. Check.

We can become mechanical without even noticing.

When we planted HBC we had a plan for what our worship time would look like. That plan was very similar to what we had experienced in our church-going lives so far.

It looked a lot like what most people expect when they attend any church.

Planting a church requires you to ask “How?” a lot. How are we going to make this work?

After about a year we started asking a different question. “Why?” Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this THIS way? Continue reading →