Doing church in the middle of the marketplace is part of our DNA at NCC. Our vision is to meet in movie theaters @ metro stops throughout the DC area. We own and operate the largest coffeehouse on Capitol Hill. And while we don’t meet there anymore, we used to do a monthy event at the largest nightclub in DC.

I reminded our congregation on Sunday that Jesus didn’t hang out at the synagogue. He hung out at wells. Wells were natural gathering places in ancient culture. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. So are movie theaters and night clubs.

So encouraged to see missional churches going into the marketplace! We had two churches doing recon @ NCC this weekend. One is looking at a comedy-club downtown Cleveland. And the other is looking at a movie theater.

Just got a link for a nightclub in Minneapolis called Club 3. Love the sound and look of it. The club doubles as a church on Sundays! And based on the pictures, it looks like they are doing it big and doing it right. In fact, I’d like to check it out next time I’m in the Twin Cities.

So encouraging to see church plants and multi-site churches re-entering the marketplace! Instead of waiting for people to come to us. We’ve got to go to them. That’s what it means to be incarnationists!

I’ve always been inspired by something C.T. Studd said:

Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.