We take fun seriously at NCC. We’re unapologetic about the fact that we love to laugh. I think the church ought to have more laughs per capita than anyplace else on earth.

We definitely upped the laughs per capita tonight We had our first Sunday Night Live event at Ebenezers. To quote Pastor Joel, “It was a night of hilarity!”

The creativity of our team never ceases to amaze me. I had nothing to do with the event so I got to sit back and enjoy it. The stand up was great. Joel cracks me up like nobody’s business. And we had everything from a dance contest to the kiss cam to a live band. I’ve been live at Letterman a couple times and I think we topped it.

And you’ve gotta love having the coffeehouse upstairs for post-event fellowship.

I try not to be prescriptive with the way we do church. I think every church is unique. We need lots of different kinds of churches because there are lots of different kinds of people. But I could see a coffeehouse trend than mirrors the theater trend. We have this core conviction that the church belongs in the middle of the marketplace. I think God is calling the church back into the marketplace.

It was so cool to meet some non-NCCers tonight. And I know that there is no way they would have come if we weren’t doing church in a coffeehouse.

Cool beans.