{"id":16389,"date":"2013-11-12T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2013-11-12T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:18:05","slug":"when-i-start-a-church-im-going-to-call-it-the-second-church-of-i-dont-go-to-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16389\/when-i-start-a-church-im-going-to-call-it-the-second-church-of-i-dont-go-to-your-church\/","title":{"rendered":"When I start a church, I\u2019m going to call it The Second Church of I-Don\u2019t-Go-To-Your-Church."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thomas Hawk<\/a> \/ Foter.com<\/a> \/ CC BY-NC<\/a><\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

How do you know when a time is right for your idea? How about when someone else comes up with something similar?: Atheist ‘mega-churches’ take root across USA, world<\/a>. For the past three months, I\u2019ve been thinking about starting a church evangelizing egoism and excluding no one, and here is the something similar. I\u2019m reading this as a publicity stunt, but we\u2019ll see. That\u2019s definitely not what I\u2019m about.<\/p>\n

What I want is a mission devoted to the idea of doing better. Just that. The doctrine is mine, Man Alive<\/em><\/a>, et<\/em> very cetera,<\/em> but I\u2019m a lot more interested in praxis than dogma. If you cross a soul-enriching music performance with a mind-enflaming motivational seminar, you\u2019re halfway to seeing what I see.<\/p>\n

Picture a real live church service somewhere, once a week. My ideal location would be a big bar on late Saturday afternoons, to put the idea of choosing admirably in mind just when it might be needed most. That can be simulcast by Ustream or Spreecast, so the whole world can join in, one mind at a time.<\/p>\n

But: I\u2019m digging living on the road a lot, so I would love to take this show on the road 15 or 20 days a month, too: Full-day hotel meeting room seminars with a ton of rotating content and drawing on local talent as well. If you think about the way seminar mechanics do major-city blitzes — TV spots and infomercials leading up to the show in three or four locations on successive days — that\u2019s the kind of road show I\u2019d love to mount. An operation like that could produce one or two new hours of tight, professional video every day.<\/p>\n

What does victory look like? How about an operation on the scale of the big boys, like Joyce Meyer or Joel Osteen? That may be too far to reach, but we are entering the age of Garage-Band Televangelism, so anything is possible.<\/p>\n

The creed? On top of everything else, there are these two principles:<\/p>\n

1. I don\u2019t go to your church.<\/p>\n

2. I am not arguing with you.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Hawk \/ Foter.com \/ CC BY-NC How do you know when a time is right for your idea? How about when someone else comes up with something similar?: Atheist ‘mega-churches’ take root across USA, world. 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