Monthly Archives: September 2015

What Could Have Happened Next?

What Could Have Happened Next?

  • Posted on September 30, 2015
  • /Under General
The other day, I was manning a booth for our church at a local “Taste of…” event when a middle-aged guy came up and asked me, “How can I get rid of my sins?” Right then, I suddenly realized I didn’t like any of my answers to that question. I had officially lost my elevator speech. I fumbled and danced around the issue, partly because he was clearly baiting me. He was obviously a Christian guy who, for whatever reason fancied himself the Chicagoland doctrine police, and I felt like he’d thrown down the gauntlet, and here I was, with...Read more …
The Long Game

The Long Game

  • Posted on September 28, 2015
  • /Under General
In our culture, we want things now. We don’t like to wait. We will actually pay five to ten times as much to get it tomorrow rather than waiting seven to ten working days for standard delivery. Today’s kids probably do not even know what an encyclopedia is—not when you can google everything in the world and have an answer in thirty seconds. When we are done shopping at the big box store, we spend three minutes scanning all the open lanes to see which has the fewest customers with the fewest purchases, just so we can save three minutes...Read more …
On the Radio – Walk the Way

On the Radio – Walk the Way

This is Walk the Way, brought to you by Q Place, I’m Jeff Klein. This question has been burning in my mind: When did the first disciples Jesus walked with GET who He was? Was it when they witnessed miracles? Did it happen in the upper room during their last meal with Him? Along the way? Or was it when Peter blurted out, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God” in response to Jesus’ question? There seem to be times they got it. But then what do you do with conversations like the one they had over who...Read more …
The Trial Meeting

The Trial Meeting

  • Posted on September 24, 2015
  • /Under On Q
We were all set, excited, and a little nervous! A few minutes after 7 p.m. my doorbell rang. Our first Trial Meeting participant was here! I’d been holding on to Exodus 14:14 for several days: The Lord himself will fight for you. Just stay calm. Now all I had to do was put that command into practice! Brianne, Leah and I (the triad, pictured here) were prayed up and prepared with eleven friends and neighbors indicating they would come to our “Coffee & Questions” Trial Meeting. We knew that building the relationships before starting our Q Place was crucial, and...Read more …
Where are you today?

Where are you today?

A couple years ago, my friend Eileen confessed to Jeff and me—over a nice, mellow, comfy Friday night dinner with her and her husband in their dining room—that she was dissatisfied with her job. Eileen was apologetic. With the economy unstable and unpredictable, each one of us was well aware that we were fortunate still to have jobs. Many people we knew had lost theirs, or would head to work wondering if this day would be their last among the ranks of the employed. Eileen was grateful for her paycheck, but restless. “I’m tired of working for a big corporate...Read more …
Intersections

Intersections

Today’s blog is a bit different than usual. As Jeff Klein, our National Church Partnership Director, sat down to begin writing a bit about “Intersections,” he realized that he was pretty much reflecting on many of the same thoughts he’d spoken about in a video some time ago that was produced by Walk the Way before it officially became part of the Q Place family. That’s when Jeff asked me if I thought it would be “cool” to show that instead of having him write it all down. As the On Q Editor, I agreed that, indeed, posting a video blog would be...Read more …
On the Radio – Walk the Way

On the Radio – Walk the Way

  • Posted on September 18, 2015
  • /Under General
This is Walk the Way, brought to you by Q Place. I’m Jeff Klein. I was talking with a farmer once and had to ask: Why does every farm I see have a broken down barn? His answer was simple: No farmer is concerned with his barns. The pride of the farmer is the field and crops. No farmer celebrates the magnificence of his barn. No seed is sown there. The seed is sown in the field. This got me thinking about the church where things are just the opposite. We celebrate our “big barns” but how does this help...Read more …
The Worst Q Place Ever?

The Worst Q Place Ever?

I have a Q Place that used to meet on Sunday afternoons in space that our church plant rented from a teen center in our city. One Sunday, an hour before our start time, two of the three ladies I was scheduled to pick up canceled. So I altered my departure time in order to make that last pick up and still arrive at the building in plenty of time. When we arrived, my co-initiator, Jenny, who is also our worship pastor’s wife, was already there with the key to the building, but she couldn’t remember the passcode for the...Read more …
No Mud Here

No Mud Here

If you’re a parent, then more than likely, you’ve assembled a child’s toy. If you’re reading this, you lived through it. Typically, toys come with instructions written by somebody somewhere whose job it was to build the toy and painstakingly communicate—step by step—precisely how they did it. This is meant to help me. And I’m sure the intentions behind the pictures and numbered steps and labeled parts and phrases like, “Put part B into part A using nut D and bolt C,” are noble and kind. But they are as clear as mud! You know what I’m talking about. Let...Read more …
On the Radio – Walk the Way

On the Radio – Walk the Way

  • Posted on September 11, 2015
  • /Under Sharing
This is Walk the Way. Brought to you by Q Place. I’m Jeff Klein. And I’m Pam Klein. I grew up with this version of the gospel: I sinned, Jesus died for my sins, accepting Him into my heart would lead to forgiveness and I was Heaven bound. Those four principles, known as the four spiritual laws, were originally developed to help people share their faith – and they did simplify huge, mysterious, mind-boggling concepts into a concise framework of understanding. But somehow, they took on a life of their own, almost to the extent that if a person doesn’t recite those...Read more …
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