Just a few thoughts tonight.
- So many church leaders are against other church leaders. I just don’t get it. We are all trying to reach the same goal of winning people to Christ, and advance the Kingdom of God on Earth! {Right?}
- The Fox Valley is a place where thousands of Christians are unchurched. A recent survey indicated that most unchurched Christians want to attend church somewhere, but do not know where to go!
- According to that survey people want to attend church where there are people like them!
- That is what I love about Overflow, we are ordinary people try to provoke one another to be more like Christ, and live a life of faith!
- In order to reach those people that are unchurch Christians & those far from God, we have to begin to think outside of the box. {How do we do that? How do we attract people?}
- I believe 2009 is the year for families at Overflow Church. It was apart of the vision God spoke to me back in January. I am praying through ways to attract and engage more families this spring and summer.
- Overflowers, please be praying for me in the area of our schedule. I have a rough outline for the semester theme’s for the rest of the year, but I need to begin putting some more details in place.
- I need more details so that I can do some strategic planning and set some goals in order to maintain a good pace of preperation.
- Did you know that God “blesses” preparation? It is true. When I spend time preparing, and seeking God man He really blesses me in a way I cannot describe.
- One final note on the preparation situation. A few people I have talked with recently gave me a hard time by the way I planned out our year into 3 different semesters {to fit in with school year} as not allowing the Holy Spirit room to move.
- I have two thoughts about that:
- God can speak to me today about a message He wants me to preach, or needs me to preach in October, just as well as He can speak to me in October about it. When I began to prepare for the following semester, I believe God honors my preparation and gives me more time to study and bounce the ideas around about the best way to build excitement, prepare good illustrations, etc…
- This past Sunday was a Holy Spirit driven Sunday at Overflow. I had a sermon completely finished and Saturday morning during my prayer time, God spoke to me clearly that I needed to change my sermon. It was for some people who would be there Sunday. I do not believe it was by accident. I felt a little nervous with little prep time and no run through. If your an Overflower reading this, you can let me know, but I thought God rocked it out! I went for it with a passion and zeal that was amazing.
- Final thought: If the church could come into UNITY with a common vision to see a city transformed, we could take entire regions for God. For now, I will continue to seek out like minded pastors and leaders to build relationship with, and beg God for that unity to come!
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