On Friday, I promised to give you five reasons as to why we are launching a second service at The Bridge. Here’s the first one: to provide options. We meet in a movie theater. Most movies have various show times: 12:15pm, 3:15pm, 5:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:00pm, 10:15pm, etc. Customers simply look up the movie times and choose which one best fits their schedule. There’s a movie my wife and I desire to see, but we keep running into one problem. The movie only has one show time and it has not been convenient for us. There have been other movies that we’ve desired to see less, but have seen before it because the other movies provided more options.
Presently, The Bridge only has a 10:00am option. That option may work well for myself and others. However, what best fits our schedule may not fit the schedule of others in our community. Adding another option gives a person the opportunity to say, “I can’t make this service, but I think I can make the other one.” This may be a hard pill for die-hard believers to swallow, but people actually have other things to do than attend our gatherings (service, youth meeting, young adult bible study, etc.) We may be willing to clear our schedule to be there, but for some people it has to fit their schedule. Just because a person has to be at work or somewhere else by a certain time, doesn’t mean they are less spiritual, disinterested in God, or lack commitment. The more jars you have, the more jars God can fill with oil (2 Kings 4:4-7). The more options you provide, the more seats God can fill. We’re hoping that adding one more service option will enable us to reach more people for Jesus Christ.
