So far we've asked five questions that I think are dangerous.  Dangerous because they threaten to upset our worlds, turn them upside down and releasing the power God wants to leverage in our lives.

Here's a recap of the four questions so far:

How would fully realizing that I am 100% fully, completely forgiven affect how I react to people who have hurt me?

Are you doing anything in your life that absolutely requires God's help to accomplish it?  If not, you're probably not doing anything significant.

What if today you pushed past your deepest fear with the confidence that God was with you?

What if you viewed all you had (your time, energy and
resources) as things entrusted to you by God for which you had to give
an account?

So how about you?  What question churning in your mind has the power to turn our individual or collective worlds upside down?  Post them as a comment and we'll see what happens.

When we started this little series a week or so ago, a friend emailed this question in:

To me, that's a bombshell (good bombshell) question. 

What would be different?  What grudge would you have left to hold?  What relational funk would there be left in any relationships?  Is that actually what heaven will be like?  If Jesus died for our sins, doesn't that mean we can experience that now?

I have had moments – just moments – in my life where I think I saw the power of that thought.  A glimpse.  My heart melts.  Then the moment is gone.

What if that was true in our lives today?

What do you think?

P.S.  Tomorrow, we turn it over to you to ask your dangerous questions.  Can't wait to see what you're asking.

Okay church leaders, we're not done the Dangerous Questions series (a landmine question coming next), but here comes a quick break to share this.

I'm a bit of a passionate/crazy Simple Church advocate.  What's the philosophy of simple church?  Rather than offering a hundred programs in ministry, we offer very little in terms of ministry options at Connexus, believing that less is more. That philosophy is even reflected in our slogan… Real Life…Simplified.

So for adults, all we do is Sunday morning and community groups.  That's it.  We believe so strongly that community groups currently offer the best impact for life change that we don't want to muddy the waters.  We just picked our best option and we're running with it.  That's it.

I always challenge church leaders with this: if you can't explain your ministry strategy on a dinner napkin, it's too complicated.  If you can't say it in a sentence, you probably don't understand it. 

A simple ministry model is to church what Apple is to computing, what Toyota and Honda are to the automotive world.  Rather than offer dozens or hundreds of mediocre choices, they offer very few choices but what they do offer is high quality.  And as this article points out, it's working.  At least for Apple.  And one might argue for Honda and Toyota.

I know this is still controversial, but several years into a simple church model, I'm so glad we made the change.  It might not just be a good church model/business model, it might also be a great life model.  Pick a few things, and do them well. 

Just sayin'….