Howdy NewSpring Church…wanted to share five things today as we prepare for an AMAZING 2011.
#1 - Pray like crazy this week for the official launch of our Charleston campus THIS SUNDAY!!! The potential to reach people far from God in that city is unbelievable as 86% of the people there do not attend church. I cannot wait to see all that God wants to do through our church in that city. Andy Green is our campus pastor at that campus (here is his website...and here he is on twitter), pray for him and the amazing group of volunteers that have already been serving…and let’s believe God for HUGE things at that campus.
#2 - “MAKE WAR” starts this Sunday as we take several week to walk through the story of David and Goliath found in I Samuel 17. (I blogged about that yesterday here just in case you missed it.) I’m asking EVERY NewSpringer to do three things in this series…
- First - Make plans to BE HERE every single week as we will be hitting issues/questions that everyone of us have wrestled with (OR are wrestling with!)
- Second - BRING SOMEONE to church with you (people are very likely to attend church in January as a part of their “New Years Resolutions.”) And…FOUND PEOPLE FIND PEOPLE!!!
- Third - Pray & ask God to do something significant in your life in this series. Let’s show up EVERY WEEK with a sense of expectation!!!
(AND…special announcement to Anderson and Columbia campuses. We will be moving our Sunday night services to Saturday for ONE WEEKEND ONLY! On Super Bowl weekend - February 5 & 6 - we will have a Saturday night service instead of a Sunday night service at NewSpring Church, more info on that later!)
#3 - It was so much fun this past Sunday to reflect and celebrate as a church in regards to what we saw Jesus do this past year. Honestly, that is a great personal exercise for all of us to do. I challenge each one of you guys to take a few minutes this week to think about where you were in your life ten years ago? Five years ago? This time last year? I promise that doing so will cause you to be OVERWHELMED with God’s faithfulness…and will also fill you with anticipation in regards to what HE wants to do NEXT!!! Ephesians 3:20 is SO true…so is Lamentations 3:22-24!!!
#4 - Personal prayer request - PLEASE pray for me that I can FINALLY complete my book! I have a goal to GET IT DONE in 2011. I have the outline completed and now just need to DISCIPLINE MYSELF to get it done. I am super excited about it and can’t wait to talk about it even more…but for now I could use you guys praying for me like crazy! :-)