are so many creatives who are artists in their that we’d be Pastors five years later, if that People have flown from Sweden, Australia, and
own right, and even our worship team is made makes sense. We are believing and trusting different places to come to our conference.
up of people like that. We believe in empowering that God knows better than we do. We have That is the part of where you go, “Who knew?”
and releasing people to go and do what they’re a sense of what God is up to, and that there called to do outside of the church. Then, when is a lot of this that would make sense in quite [WM] Are both of your services streamed live,
they are inside the church, they are part of our a few other cities, so we’re open to that. We and are they archived too for later viewing?
worship team. We work to find that balance of don’t have any formal plans. We’re just praying allowing people to do what they’re called to do, to see what God has for us, even in 2018 in [Henry] Yes that is correct. We have the
both outside and inside in the church. Many Nashville as church is expanding. I would love messages online. We did have the worship
of our worship leaders are already signed with to say that we have these grandiose plans to online for a while, but we were trying to navigate
labels, and that was an interesting part of the take over the world, but we’re taking it step by that as we were writing and releasing new
process for us. Working together with most of step right now and making sure that every step songs before they were ready to be out. We
the major Christian labels here in town to figure we take is right. God’s in no hurry, and we’re ended up taking the worship off of the archives.
out how to get this album done was a process. in no hurry! That has been one of the things It was new territory, and people were amazing with the online presence. When we first started, to work with. I was not keen on the idea of an Internet church
[Alex] Which people got really mad about!
until we realized that many of our people are [Henry] It was one of the reasons we wanted
We had moments where we were all sitting traveling for months at a time. They still want to get the album out. So that people had
there thinking, “How do we do this, and how to remain connected and plugged into church access to the worship music.
does this make sense for everybody involved?” life. It’s been a wild ride. iPhone, literally taped to a microphone stand [WM] How do you and Alex divide up the
We began streaming church from an
in the back of the room. It was not pretty, but pastoral duties with the services, as far
[WM] What is the big picture for The Belonging it was enough for people to take part in church as teaching?
Co over the next 5 to 10 years? Have you wherever they were on the road. We realized considered branching out to other cities? that we can have an impact in people’s lives [Henry] We definitely lead the church together,
that are not planted here in Nashville. It’s and we love that we get to lead it together. Alex
[Henry] Yeah (laughs) we live in this funny been incredible to hear the stories of people is an incredible speaker. and in the early days
tension where five years ago we had no idea from all over the world streaming the church. was much more comfortable speaking than I
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