Pastor P

Sunday Night Reflections

Oct 4, 2009

A few thoughts for the day…

  • Saw around 50 people surrender their lives to Christ today…THAT never gets old!
  • Was VERY surprised that our Columbia campus INCREASED in attendance from last weekend…that has never happened in the history of our church in the opening of any campus that we had more people there the following week than opening week!
  • “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” is now one of my favorite songs.  WOW!
  • Next Sunday is going to be INCREDIBLE as the children’s choir from Kenya will be leading us in worship!
  • Today we talked about the Judgment Seat of Christ and the Great White Throne Judgment, all of us will stand at one of those places in the end times.
  • The question I believe every follower of Christ should wrestle with is, “Am I continually giving Him the very best I’ve got!”  He doesn’t expect perfection…but He does expect our best.
  • BTW…He KNOWS the truth!
  • Yes, the story about the girl who had 15,000 text messages in a month was true!
  • When we seek to negotiate with God rather than obey Him we are no longer seeking to follow Him but rather manipulate Him!
  • The story about the girl who gave the Ipod messed me up!!!  That’s generosity!!!
  • The last thing I want to be is a “normal” pastor who leads a “normal” church full of “normal” people!  “Normal” sucks!
  • I believe there is UNLIMITED POTENTIAL in every single church WITHIN the people who are there…if they would simply EMBRACE the fact that God has gifted them to serve others…and in doing so the body is built up and they grow and mature!  (Ephesians 4:11-16)
  • Why in the world would you procrastinate a decision when God, the CREATOR of the UNIVERSE, has spoken so clearly on what you need to do?
  • The problem with church people isn’t often we don’t have INFORMATION…but rather we lack the TRANSFORMATION that Christ is longing to bring about in us!
  • JESUS said hell would be more crowded than heaven…that’s serious stuff!  (Matthew 7:13-14)
  • Jesus also was clear in Matthew 7:21-23 that there are people who are in church…but not in the Kingdom!
  • I had the privilege of meeting with my discipleship group tonight…I love these guys!!!
  • Charisse pee’d on me tonight while sitting in my lap!  :-)
  • Looking forward to heading down to ATL on Tuesday…speaking at the Catalyst Pre Lab on Wednesday morning…could use your prayers, have never given this talk before!

That’s it…have a GREAT week!!!