Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Paint Your Church Purple

One of the ideas from Mark Batterson's top ten list for new pastors was to paint the church purple--make the ministry hard to ignore was the concept. I've been thinking about businesses and churches that are painted purple. Here are some examples:
  • Kids at Granger Community Church enter their classrooms through a McDonald's Playland type slide. They check in upstairs and slide down to their class below. That's purple.
  • Phoenix First Assembly and the LA Dream Center have such a passion to reach out to hurting people that it paints the church purple. That's purple.
  • Everything at Walt Disney World is painted purple. Think about it--there was no such thing as a theme park before Disneyland. That's really purple.

What are some churches of businesses that you know of that are painted purple.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think New Life Church in Colorado Springs does a great job of painting itself purple, with The Mill for college-age students, and the nationally known Desperation Band for youth. They are also home to the World Prayer Center. www.newlifechurch.org

Anonymous said...

Oops. I probably should have mentioned that they also offer a number of leadership, worship, and intern training programs.

Glenn Reynolds said...

I think the purplest thing about New Life is the entire life giving church model that they have created. You can listen to Pastor Ted's sermons through the internet for free to see what I mean. I think all of those ministries flow out of that paradigm.