Cleveland’s points forced us to grapple with some of our unhealthy ministry assumptions and caused us to ask some tough questions: Why don’t we first turn to supporting and encouraging inner-city pastors, instead of assuming our presence is the solution? Why start a new “campus” with a video screen of a pastor preaching in a completely different context, foreign to this community and this neighborhood? The answer is that we want power for control, and we are convinced that if we are not controlling something, it will probably go wrong.
