Willow Creek & Lessons Learned

I am finally going to post my thoughts on the whole Willow Creek study that was put out this past year. People have loved jumping on the band-wagon and saying that they have blown it for the past 20+ years and that they were wrong. People love to find flaws in what has worked, I guess it must make us feel better for our stuff not working either! If blowing it is reaching 20, 000+ people with the good news of Jesus and baptizing them - then I hope we blow it is as well!!!

I know that NorthStar Church stands on a road paved by churches like Willow Creek and so does Saddleback, North Point, etc. These guys have led the way and were 20 years ahead of the curve! I guess Hybels had enough of the "stories" flying and decided to address them himself.

Please see the interview and article below:

Bill Hybels Responds to “Reveal” Criticism

A couple of weeks ago, Christianity Today ran an article entitled, "Willow Creek's Huge Shift" (subtitled Influential Mega Church Moves Away from Seeker Sensitive Services). Here's how the article started: “After modeling a seeker-sensitive approach to church growth for three decades, Willow Creek now plans to gear its weekend services toward mature believers seeking to grow their faith." Recently, Jim Millado sat down with Bill Hybels so that he could respond. It seems that from Bill's perspective, enough was enough, and it was time to set the record straight. Here are a few comments from Hybels on the situation (and on other reports that have come out from Reveal). You can also watch the video of the interview... Read the full post here...