why NewPointe doesn't do biker sundays

A question I sometimes get asked by my biker friends is, "Why doesn't NewPointe have a biker Sunday?"

Biker Sundays have become all the rage...all over the country. Typically, a church will decide to do one as an outreach event, inviting all the bikers to ride their motorcycles to church for a special service, usually followed by free lunch and a big ride or parade. They're very fun. Very cool. My good friend Steve Combs is one of the biker Sunday pioneers. He's been doing biker Sundays for about 10 years.

I think they're fun, and there's no denying that many bikers have been impacted and forever changed through biker Sunday events. Shoot, we've even ridden from NewPointe to a couple Biker Sundays recently.

So why don't we do biker Sunday at NewPointe? Well, it's because we believe every Sunday is Biker Sunday at NewPointe. Really. See, we've worked extremely hard to create an environment where all people, including bikers, can come to church and not be weirded-out. My biggest hang-up with many biker Sunday events at churches is that for one Sunday (Biker Sunday) the church decides they're going to try and be relevant and connect with real people...bikers. So they do rock and roll music, they wear jeans and t-shirts, they bring a special speaker who can "relate" to the bikers...they basically roll out the red carpet one day a year for bikers.

My question is: why just one day a year? Because here's the reality: even if Biker Sunday is great...and even if a biker really connects with it...even if a biker "gets saved," then what? He's going to come back next week and experience church music, church people, in some cases a choir (wearing choir robes) and usually it's just nothing like the biker Sunday he experienced a week ago.

So what we try to do at NewPointe is create an environment that's going to connect with a biker (or a banker, or a baker, or a broker) every Sunday. We want to be relevant and real next Sunday to. So that's what we do. We want you to be comfortable inviting your biker friends this Sunday, or the next Sunday, or any Sunday. And we're confident that they're going to have a good (and unusual) church experience.

My opinion is that most bikers have negative preconceptions about church. So we get them to come to a Biker Sunday, we do things differently, and then the next week we confirm those negative preconceptions. If a church wants to reach bikers, then why not do those "different" things every week? See, that's what we're all about.

At NewPointe, we love bikers. We love them so much that we've just gone ahead and made every Sunday "Biker Sunday." Wanna invite your biker friend? This Sunday works. Or...how 'bout September 23? We've got a great ride planned for after the second service on that day.