Craigslist Church?

Craigslist is dangerous.
Don't let it fool you, it looks fun at first... but then you just get sucked in! It seems like every other day lately we've been selling or buying something off of Craigslist! Finally the other night on the way home from yet another pick up from a Craigslist purchase I look over to my wife and say, "that's it... no more Craigslisting until well after the baby is born! Okay!? That's it! We're done." ... It was funny. But it was Serious.
Well the next evening as Emily and I are making dinner together she starts to tell me how she just happened to look at Craigslist today and just so happened that there was the perfect baby bassinet that we've been looking for!
Shocked... but not surprised.

I have to admit it's a great idea. Craigslist that is. We are a culture of people who desire good platforms.
Raised in a world where things are given to us, made for us, told to us, shown the correct way to do, we are a group of people hungry for a good platform to do it our way! And over the past several years there have been a ridiculous number of these sorts of things to come our way.... ex. Facebook, Twitter, Google... Blogger :) But on top of those there are hundreds that are more "practical" for whatever field of life you are in. We love our platforms.

Personally, I this has been a sort of "platform/soapbox" for me and the church.
Growing up in a time and place where we've said "This is what church is and this is how you do it"... has always rubbed me the wrong way. And over time I've realized that while many of the things we do are "legit" many are not.  Church in its very nature is not something we "Do" but who we "are." It's time for the church to begin to have the "platform" conversation. How can we as the Church create platforms for life to happen... for the people to get together and share their faith... their gifts... their ideas... their hearts...

To do this perhaps we've got to move beyond the pews (so to speak) and get everyone on stage...