10 Reasons Not To Join Harbor Church

A couple weeks ago I was really inspired by a blog written by Justin Buzzard to his new church plant in San Jose.  I want to take it and re-apply it to Harbor Church.  We constantly welcome everyone to be a part of what God is doing among us so please don't hear what we're not saying.  There are lots of reasons to join Harbor church, but here are ten reasons not to:

1. If you want religion (This church will be built on the radical gospel of grace).

2. If you’re a consumer wanting to “go to church” 1x a week for a nice show (We are not a Sunday show, we are a community of disciples on a mission).

3. If you’re looking for the next cool thing in town (We want to grow by conversion growth, not church-goer transfer growth).

4. If you’re a Christian and you don’t like your current church (You will find reasons to not like this church).

5. If you have a bad track record at churches of being unteachable and causing problems (You won’t change here, you’ll repeat the pattern).

6. If you have an agenda (We have our vision, our mission, and our values—your private agenda does not supersede them).

7. If you’re a wolf (We will sniff you out).

8. If you think this will be a nice little church that stays the same size, where everybody knows your name and you have my cell number on speed dial and we have a picnic lunch together every week (By God’s grace, we want to grow).

9. If you think this will be easy and smooth (This will be hard and difficult; this will be a fight, a battle, and a challenging mission).

10. If you want to hold onto your comfortable life (You must lose your life).

Also, I love this quote from Sir Ernest Shackleton.  It is from the advertisement he used when recruiting men for his expedition to Antarctica in 1914: