I was listening to Perry Noble teaching while I was sweating like crazy at the gym this morning. He said there are two ways you can tell when God is about to do something very special through what you are planning -

1. A whole load of people get really fired up about the idea that’s being presented.

2. Another whole load of people get ticked off about it (he actually said pissed off, but I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to say that here!).

Looking back over my years in ministry, I think that’s a pretty shrewd assessment of how things pan out. The secret is to hang tight with the people who dare to believe God and not to pay attention to the naysayers.

I must admit I haven’t heard any negativity about our plans to start a second campus this fall, but just in case some develops, I figured I’d lay out the best reasons I can think of why it won’t work, just to save detractors the time and energy.

If they realize I know these things already, they won’t need to call me, email me or lecture me on how ridiculous the whole thing is!

10. We’re already totally stretched doing what we do now.

9. The economy is bad and porobably getting worse.

8. We don’t have the money to pull this off.

7. We don’t have the personnel to pull this off.

6. We don’t even have one spare musician to be the start of a second worship band.

5. It has never been tried before on Long Island.

4. This is a tough place to get one congregation up and running, leave alone two.

3. We don’t know anyone will even want to come.

2. Just because theater church works in Ronkonkoma, there’s no telling it will in Mastic or Deer Park.

1. Things are okay the way they are, it may unsettle everyone if we shake things up.

Enough said? It’s impossible – without God!!!