Although I haven’t posted my thoughts on yesterday’s conference speakers at the Willow Creek A2 conference, I am excited to hear John Burke from Gateway Community Church in Austin Texas speak this morning on “creating a come as you are” culture.
Located in Austin, Texas, Gateway Church has a “no perfect people allowed” policy because there are no perfect people. Founding Pastor John Burke started the church eight years ago with a passion to create a church culture that authentically and openly welcomed postmoderns wherever they were spiritually. Most of the congregation was unchurched before coming to Gateway; 40 percent are under 30 years of age; and over half are single.
We have the same demographics and reach the same post-modern 20-40 years olds in Chicago so this willl be an excellent case study for our team.
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