A few thoughts on an amazing day…
- We saw SO MANY people make decisions to confess Christ as Lord and turn their lives over to Him…THAT NEVER GETS OLD!
- Florence campus had its biggest crowd of the year today—WOW!!!
- No matter how much I read Scripture I always come back to II Corinthians 5:17…THAT truth gets me EVERY TIME, especially the word “anyone!”
- The video stories of changed lives were amazing…and consistent, people were far from Christ, someone invited them to church, they listened to and responded to the message, received Christ and HE changed their lives!
- I LOVE the fact that in one of the stories someone said, “I didn’t want my sister to stop inviting me.” So many times people think they are annoying people when they invite people to church…but doing so actually communicates to people that we care about them. (See Romans 10:14 and Romans 10:17)
- So many people who are not in church think that they need to clean up their lives so that they can go to church…which is why is SO IMPORTANT for us to communicate to people that they can some as they are (and we can trust JESUS to take them where they need to be!)
- I read a statistic once that said around 25% of all unchurched people said they would come to church if someone would just invite them to come!
- It IS a tad uncomfortable to invite people to church…but the goal of Christianity is NOT comfort but rather conformity to Christ, who COMPLETELY embraced a VERY uncomfortable cross in order that we may cross over from death to life!!!
- Personally…I am SO glad that I had a friend that NEVER gave up on me. (See Galatians 6:9)
- Easter is in TWO WEEKS…lets do all we can to make sure that those who need to be in “the chair” are here…and then lets BEG GOD to do something amazing!
- Can’t wait to preach next week and close out this series…having two weeks off was refreshing but now I feel like Jeremiah 20:9 is coming true in my life…HE is setting me ON FIRE!
- We are launching a brand new 30 day devotional series online today—we talk to SO many people who say they would read their Bible if they just knew where to begin, trust me, THIS LINK will help you get started AND/OR maybe refresh your current quiet time, check it out!
- Hey parents…you should REALLY sign your teenager up for The Gauntlet ASAP...this is one of my FAVORITE weeks of the entire year and there is NO WAY to describe what God does during that week. It is SERIOUSLY one of THE BEST investments you can make in life of your teenager!
- Lots of excitement about our leadership conference in September…hope you get signed up...I LOVE the speaker line-up, I think we will all be challenged in EVERY session!
- REALLY excited about being at the Ignite Conference this week in Chandler, Arizona this week…looking forward to meeting LOTS of new people!
- I did P90X this morning—chest and back—I’m still shaking all over!!
- Did the plyometrics workout on Saturday morning…really walking funny today…seriously, that DVD series is LEGIT!
- I think I am going to do a DVD video series entitled, “PastorP90X!” I think it would sell!!!! :-)
That’s about it for the day…have an amazing week!