August 16, Thoughts on Sunday
We are in the middle of a series called, "In the Name of Love" and yesterday we discussed loving our neighbor. Some of my thoughts on the day:
* I am convinced the church has become a barrier to the cross and not a bridge and one of the main reasons is due to our lack of love towards others.
* Unchurched people do not like churched people for this reason.
* Used the Good Samaritan parable found in Luke 10 as our main text.
* Do you think it was a coincidence that Christ used two churched people who walked by(not only walked by but went to the other side of the road) the wounded traveler? I don't.
* A man stood and gave his life to Jesus. I spoke with him after the service and beleive it is the real deal. That jacks me up.
* The band nailed "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi. It was awsome and being honest, I think the church of America should inherit that song as their theme song!
* Great energy in both services.
* The Kid Zone had 230 people go through its doors. That is a bunch of kids. Wall to wall in the first service.
* Corey did an awesome job with all the video and tech stuff. Love the stage design to this series.
* * Anytime a 6'6" 290 pound man sings "Won't you be my neighbor" you know it's gonna be a different kind of service
* What no one knows is that Tim was behind stage singing so he could try and help keep me on key. Didn't work!
* Met numerous visitors again. Saw a lot of visitors from the past few weeks back again today.
* In fact, while I was in my office before the service had several phone calls with people asking what time our services started.
* I'm convinced one of the reason we are having so many visitors is due to the fact that our people are loving on others.
* Actually had a couple phone calls yesterday with people sharing how they stopped and helped someone broken down. One couple had been sitting for over two hours. Wonder how many churched people went right by them?
* Great job 5 Point, keep up the good work.
* In both services hundreds of people stood asking God to give them opportunities to help their neighbor.
* We are getting closer to that 1,000 mark every Sunday. We will do it by September.
* We have incredible momentum going into the fall.
* Can't wait to see what God has in store for us.
Finished the morning with Galatians 5:14-15. Great verse for the church of America.
Galatians 5:14-15
14 The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." 15 If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
* Wonder if this verse describes why so many churches are closing their doors? Just a thought.
* I am convinced the church has become a barrier to the cross and not a bridge and one of the main reasons is due to our lack of love towards others.
* Unchurched people do not like churched people for this reason.
* Used the Good Samaritan parable found in Luke 10 as our main text.
* Do you think it was a coincidence that Christ used two churched people who walked by(not only walked by but went to the other side of the road) the wounded traveler? I don't.
* A man stood and gave his life to Jesus. I spoke with him after the service and beleive it is the real deal. That jacks me up.
* The band nailed "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi. It was awsome and being honest, I think the church of America should inherit that song as their theme song!
* Great energy in both services.
* The Kid Zone had 230 people go through its doors. That is a bunch of kids. Wall to wall in the first service.
* Corey did an awesome job with all the video and tech stuff. Love the stage design to this series.
* * Anytime a 6'6" 290 pound man sings "Won't you be my neighbor" you know it's gonna be a different kind of service
* What no one knows is that Tim was behind stage singing so he could try and help keep me on key. Didn't work!
* Met numerous visitors again. Saw a lot of visitors from the past few weeks back again today.
* In fact, while I was in my office before the service had several phone calls with people asking what time our services started.
* I'm convinced one of the reason we are having so many visitors is due to the fact that our people are loving on others.
* Actually had a couple phone calls yesterday with people sharing how they stopped and helped someone broken down. One couple had been sitting for over two hours. Wonder how many churched people went right by them?
* Great job 5 Point, keep up the good work.
* In both services hundreds of people stood asking God to give them opportunities to help their neighbor.
* We are getting closer to that 1,000 mark every Sunday. We will do it by September.
* We have incredible momentum going into the fall.
* Can't wait to see what God has in store for us.
Finished the morning with Galatians 5:14-15. Great verse for the church of America.
Galatians 5:14-15
14 The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." 15 If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
* Wonder if this verse describes why so many churches are closing their doors? Just a thought.
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