Well it was quite an interesting weekend to say the least! We had our first weekend of the two service format (9am & 11am) and had a spectacular day. It did not look like it was going to be that way when we received a phone call from the school principal at 10pm last night informing us we could not meet in the gym today. Apparently, a breaker burned out from all the power being pulled for the 'Annie Jr.' performance the school had been performing all weekend. We went into hyperventilate mode for about a minute and then settled on a solution of meeting in the cafeteria for just this week. Here is what God revealed to me through it all:
* I'm so blessed to be with the people of The Journey and serve beside such warriors!
* When in a crisis situation, people of The Journey will always rise to the occasion -- way to go everybody that had a hand in preparing the cafeteria for services today!
* God could care less where we meet and can rain His presence down in any environment -- praise Him for the life given to Christ in the 11am service and all the commitments made today!
* Robbie Cheuvront is one big stress-ball and needs a day off -- I have given him off tomorrow. Man I love that guy! :-)
* Today we had our largest Catalyst gathering attendance outside of Easter!
* We now realize how much easier we've had it with set-up/tear-down after this week!
* We have not even seen the likes of what God desires to do at The Journey!
* The Journey @ Providence and @ Hartsville is coming this fall and I can not wait for the day of pausing on a Sunday and realizing that in three different areas, there is ONE church, gathering and praising the name of Jesus -- dang that is going to be awesome! (sorry, I'm having a moment)
* In the last four weeks, there have been 9 professions of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and so far 5 have been baptized -- God is good!
Invest and invite this week. Get a hold of some folks from The Journey for coffee or connection time other than Sunday. Pray that God would saturate your life with His presence. Be light in this world! Next Sunday, we discuss how Jesus was about 'Redefining Symbols'. Let's journey together this week.
The service was great today. I felt like you were speaking directly to me many times! Thanks for making us feel welcome.
ReplyDeleteWe love having you guys and look forward to all God might do through us together. You guys have a great family!
ReplyDeleteerik you really nailed it today, the message was awesome!! you put it all in perspecctive. great job
ReplyDeleteThanks Doug, we need to get together and do a rematch for NCAA 08!
ReplyDeletegreat job today, dude! i wouldn't exactly say, "stress ball!" maybe just tightly wound!!! :)
ReplyDeletea rematch sounds good. john is coming over tomorrow night, so hopefully i'll get the big orange a win.
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