For 14 years, Tim’s leadership has helped Granger Community Church connect with people who think church is irrelevant. He has done this through the creative blending of architecture, strategy, and technology. He’s acutely turned in to popular culture and is instrumental in balancing operations, building creative teams, and inspiring artists to brand each message series and shaped the weekend experience. He’s the author of the recently released book Pop Goes the Church that asks the question, “Should the Church engage pop culture?” He’s also co-authored the Simply Strategic book series using humor and practical principles to equip churches and ministry leaders.
More from Tim on his blog.
- People in our culture are on a spiritual search and are not including the
Church as a part of that journey. - Most churches are not impacting their communities.
- There are three categories of people: churched, unchurched, and de-churched.
- Spiritual interest is at an all-time high in our culture; church attendance is
going down. - Celebrities, songwriters, authors, etc. are all expressing spiritual questions.
- Is the Church answering questions people are asking?
- Is the Church a safe place for people to ask their spiritual questions?
- The Church needs to enter spiritual conversations that people are having around us.
- We need to use what culture is identifying with to bring about spiritual truth
and the message of the Gospel (Paul on Mars Hill in Acts 17). - How do you look into culture and find Jesus?
- Use pop culture to package your topic (message series) in order to attract a crowd.
- Use pop culture to get people thinking or laughing.
- Use pop culture to prove a new interpretation for a popular cultural element.
- Use pop culture to encourage the people who are making ministry happen.
