If you are reading this blog entry there is a good chance that you have already looked at some other areas of our newly refurbished web site.  If otherwise, please take the time to look it over and let us know what you think.  Go to: www.followingtheway.org. Now like all remodeling and construction projects a couple issues are always to be expected.

Issue #1 - There is always a punchlist of things that still need to be completed.  Anyone that's moved into a new home or remodeled portion of a home knows little things show up after the major construction.  This will surely be true of our web site.  Please just drop me or the webmaster (or webservant for the theologically correct) a line about what we can do to punch that correction off the list and we'll get to it as promptly as possible.

Issue #2 - The decorations and arrangement of the rooms are always in flux.  As much as you may like things right now it doesn't take long to get discontent or restless with seeing the same things in the same location day after day after day.  We know the feeling.  What we had up before was ok for a while, but it needed a face lift.  The new site will be the same.  We'll want to see bigger and better; more features, more pictures.  We already have plans for those things so bear with us.

Issue #3 - Whatever you see and grasp from our website will be a poor reflection of who we really are.  It's a little like what Paul was saying in 1 Corinthians 13 when he said "we dimly see in the mirror (of the then only partial Scriptures), but then face to face".  He was saying that his knowledge of the will of God was partial because the full mirror of the Scriptures were not completed as the revealed will of God.  But when it was completed it would have the ability to reveal God to us and us to ourselves as if we were face to face.  Obviously our website would make no claim to be the full and final revelation about who we are and what we're about at Open Door.  So please don't invest so much into it as a replacement for body life.  We've enhanced it as a tool so that you will enhance your personal investment into the members lives and ministries of our church.

Our church and hopefully, "The Church," must remember that our business is not just about getting out information, "being in the know", or having an opinion about everything.  It is about spending time together and imparting spiritual encouragement and mentoring life-to-life.  To the extent that our upgraded web site encourages that outcome then we've succeeded.  To the extent that it becomes a replacement for life-to-life and heart-to-heart communication (which happens best face-to-face) then we've failed.

 

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