“Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe. Crowds are interesting, and they can create all sorts of worthwhile artifacts and market effects. But tribes are longer lasting and more effective.”
Tribes, Seth Godin
At the heart of The Next Level Church there is a core, the partners and shareholders; those who invest their skill, resources, time, and passions. They are the ones who cultivate and create this community. The church is, and always will be, defined by the people who initiate, invest, and invite. The known figures, the pastors or staff, may tell the stories and hold the wheel, but they are not the force or the movement.
The thing itself is you. You are the people whose lives have been changed and not only observed, but participated in the change in the lives of others. You are the people who make this a place where “you are accepted here just as you are”.
Together we are becoming the church God intends us to be. Together we want to be a source of inspiration and a place of perspiration. Together we are a place where pictures of preferable futures become practices of the present day. Together we are more than a collection of individuals with shared belief; we are a community of faith.
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