I talked with a guy yesterday who uses multi acre corn mazes as a point of contact for evangelism. His company makes these giant corn mazes, in the middle they have an ampitheater where they do some kind of Jesus-y drama, and people are coming to faith in Jesus. But guess what. They don’t want to go rushing to their nearest church. They’re hoping for some kind of alternative.
I didn’t think of it last night, but I’m wondering if Alpha would be a way to make the connection with these brand new Christians. This guy also runs a restaraunt/dairy bar here in Oley. We could do Alpha there, and then maybe people would be ready to plug in to a local church.
This could also spawn any number of smaller organic (liquid) churches. Hirsch wonders aloud in his book about whether Alpha couldn’t become more of a church multiplication movement than strictly a way for traditional churches to introduce people to the Way of Jesus. I’d love to see a few churches in this area work with the corn maze guy on this. What happens next will take care of itself.
