Ridgell's Originals

These are the names we are now using for the Sunday worship assemblies at Southern Hills. They are the same but different. What I mean is that all assemblies follow the same core teaching thread: same passages, same theme, and same message. The communication and worship styles are somewhat different, with Refresh being geared more to a communication model that fits with the Millennials better. That includes shorter messages, interactive communication, more relational communion, etc. Daybreak is the service that is more of the format Southern Hills has generally used over the past few years. Someone did ask if this was the "traditional" service. It is amusing for me to hear our services referred to as traditional. But it does reflect what has been our usual style. All of our services operate under the worship guidelines our elders have adopted. Different, but the same.

The hope is that different assemblies -- in terms of times and communication styles -- will help us to reach more people and help everyone be drawn into community at Southern Hills. So... we have also launched three Home Gatherings. These are assemblies in homes. We are currently planning to revise our Sunday night assembly (Sundown) to be yet another option for worship and evangelism.

Depending on who you talk to we are either passionate about doing whatever we can to reach out to the unbelievers in our community and to make our worship together a place to meet God whatever your age, culture, or background. Or we are catering to every whim and complainer who wants things done their way.

Personally, I buy into the "all things to all people to reach some" theory.

Feel free to comment. Maybe in the next post I will share some of the rumors I have heard about this initiative.