Fresh eyes

Let me ask you a question. If someone brand new was to come and take over your church or business and you were out, what would they do differently? What changes would they automatically make to your current organization?
Now here's the question! Why don't we make those changes?
If we know what someone with fresh eyes would change to better organization why don't we go ahead and make those same changes?
Last weekend we had two couples who are pastors in other churches visit us to see how we do things here. At our Monday staff meeting I asked them to give a couple of things that were positive and negative. Now none of us like hearing the negatives but until we face the facts we can never change so here they were.

1. Nowhere for a new person to go to after or before the service to meet people.

Because our church facility is in transition we don't have a coffee shop, guest lounge etc so we function with marques outside (thank God for Gold Coast weather). So everyone piles out of one service outside and mingles with coffee etc. Our mistake was thinking that somewhere in that mass a new person is receiving the information and connection that they need to join our church.

So what are we doing about this?

As from this Sunday we have a forth marque called our Guest Lounge with great coffee and food where a new person can meet with other families and leaders here at Elevation.

2. To dark to read bibles

Simple we have adjusted lighting in the auditorium enough so that people can actually follow along in their bibles because isn't that what we want from our church members?

3. Hard to see stairs

To fix this we went to Bunnings and bought a bunch of battery operated cinema lights that are used to illuminate the stairs.

Okay the point of all of this? Simple! Fresh eyes see things that tired eyes don't. We don't change things because we stop thinking about if someone with fresh eyes came in what would they do differently. And when someone with fresh eyes does come in we don't as them the right questions.