East To West

Building and maintaining healthy relationships is one of the greatest challenges we face in life. It’s a struggle.  Getting along with people is a huge struggle! Sometimes we may even wonder if healthy relationships are possible. There is one key that helps in this process of having “happy relationships” and that key is forgiveness.  This series will investigate the depths of forgiveness, and how we can have a clean, new start with the people we hurt and the people who hurt us.  Our journey will help us know how to give forgiveness, seek forgiveness, and guard against refusing forgiveness.

 

East To West Series from Fellowship Today on Vimeo.

Online Service Options

Perry Noble

• NewSpring Church (11:15 am & 2:00 pm Sunday)

Dino Rizzo

• Healing Place Church (11am & 9pm)

Mark Beeson

• Granger Community Church (6:30pm & 8:30pm)

Tadd Grandstaff

• Pine Ridge Church (11:00am)

Troy Grambling

• Flamingo Road Church (9:30, 11:00, 12:45pm, 5:00pm)

100 Day Prayer Challenge

Eric on Sunday challenged the church to 100 days of prayer.  I thought why not challenge everybody who reads this blog to jump on board and pray as well.  You pray for my church and I’ll pray for your church if you list your church below.  The only way we will see God move throughout is if people humble themselves and pray  for His will and not ours.  Below is what our church [Fellowship Church] is praying for and I believe it to be universal.

• Be unified and motivated to serve
• Grow as a community who love and accept each other and new people wherever they’re at
• Develop a heart for our local community, our schools, our neighbors, in demonstrating our love for them and meeting their needs, expecting nothing in return
• Become people who invest in our community and invite them into our church family

So how about it?  Can you commit the next 100 days to lift your church and mine up in prayer to God?

Discover God’s Heart from Fellowship Today on Vimeo.

The Pizza/Church Turnaround

If you are from anywhere that has good pizza then you can completely understand why Domino’s relaunched their company in 2010 with new marketing and a new pizza.  They threw out the old pizza and introduced a new one that did not taste like cardboard with ketchup on it. Domino’s admitted that they could no longer ride the success they had in the eighties any longer and began to listen to people and hear what they wanted in a pizza.

I’m impressed that Dominos was willing to throw it all out and start over although I am pretty sure their declining sales may have had more to say about their product than the people.  It got me thinking.  If Domino’s can relaunch with new marketing and new pizza why can’t the church?  I wonder if churches are concerned more about the bottom line and the fear of losing market share if they change than they are about what the people really want and need?  I wonder if churches are still riding the success of the past rather than risking it all in faith for the church of the future?  The product is still pizza and in the church the product is still Jesus, however, many people have a bad taste of Jesus in their mouth due to various reasons; seems fake, judgmental, angry, guilt driven, only want money and so on and so on. What if the church was to do a major marketing makeover?  What if the church was throw out the old ways that are not working and start over?

Jesus is the greatest thing in the entire world and offers us something that nobody else anywhere is offering.  People are not rejecting God, they are rejecting the ones who are supposed to be living out God in a real and authentic way.  They are rejecting the very organization that God created because it has been mismanaged and used as a way to exalt ourselves instead of exalting the one who died for it.  I don’t believe all churches are doing this or have done this, but sometimes a few can spoil it for the many.

I love being a part of a church that is thinking outside the box and is truly concerned for the lost, the broken and the ones who feel like they are on the outside.  I love being a part of a church thats connecting people not to programs but to a loving God.  I love being a part of a church that is all about the relationships and not about the religion and the barriers that it brings with it.

If Domino’s can do a turnaround and draw people back in for pizza, why can’t the church draw people back to a real, authentic relationship with Christ?

25 Days Of Christmas_Day 5

Tomorrow morning we launch our series called “That Night” that walks through the story of Christmas.  That Night changed everything from the meaning of life to relationships.  Join us at 10:30am at the Garnet Valley Middle School as we begin our series “That Night” that will go through December 27th.

That Night_Intro from Ryan Geiger on Vimeo.

Weekend Wrap Up

If you missed this weekend you missed out on one of the most exciting weekends at Fellowship Church in a long time.

Friday Night- Kid Kollage, Dan & Kristi do and incredible job reaching kids and their families.  A lot of fun for the whole family.  You must check this out on the first Friday of each month.

Saturday Morning- Men of Ice, Lee White does a great job of helping men get deeper together.

Saturday Night- UNITED and we had a good turnout.  Lots of guests and we had 9 students received Christ.  Great energy from the band and we did a black light drama that was very powerful.  I challenged the students to be Purple People Leaders.

Sunday- we got to hear from Eric Koehler and hear his heart on the local church and how it is the hope of the world.  Eric is a gifted communicator who we believe God has brought to us to lead Fellowship into the next generation.  Excited about what God is doing here and where we are headed.  Below are both videos of Eric introducing his family as well as his talk on Sunday Morning.

Introducing Eric Koehler from Fellowship Today on Vimeo.

Eric Koehler from Fellowship Today on Vimeo.

Those Moments

I talked today in our wrap up of “So, Your Dead…Now What?” about those moments in life that you’ll remember but also those moment that pale in comparison to a moment with God in Heaven. 1 Corinthians 2:9 says, no ear has heard, no eye has seen what God has in store for those who love Him. The fact is we can’t even imagine what Heaven will be like but we know that it will be better to be in God’s presence for one moment than to spend a thousand years here on earth.

What we know is that God will do away with death, mourning and pain and God will dwell with us.  The lie the devil wants us to believe is that Heaven can wait…the reality is Heaven can’t wait and we need to live today with a sense of urgency and share with others the realness of a relationship with Christ and engage them with Heaven verses scaring them out of Hell.  A relationship will win over religion every time.

So as great as it was with my boys today, Heaven will be indescribably better than anything I could share with you.  Study and beg God to reveal to you His nature and our eternal destiny.

So Your Dead, Now What?

I am so pumped about this Sunday as I get to teach on a subject that is so important and carries so much weight but is also so hard to articulate and affects so many.  What happens after you die?  This week we are tackeling the tough subject of Hell.  Join us as we take this two week journey together.

Check out the video on Facebook.

Weekend Wrap Up

• Set up was great this morning and there was a lot of energy.
• Worship was great and we did a country song, I can’t remember the last time we did one of those.
• I don’t know what was up with the cow tipping video but I thought it was hilarious.
• I heard they had like 75 in Kid Venture Live…my son loved it.
• Met so many new families today who were looking for a church just like us.
• Friday night Kid Kollage was awesome.  Dan & Kristi are so talented at what they do.
• UNITED was great.  We had 4 students receive Christ.
• SQUID a band from GVHS played and they did awesome.
• Donny was insane with the praise band…we may have to start looking at making an album, they are so talented.
• Life Groups kicked off tonight and our leaders that work with students are amazing.
• The first student coaching network kicked off tonight and all the students showed up and gave me so many ideas.
• There was a great turnout for the life group meet and greet this morning.
• There is a lot of energy about our fall upcoming events.
• Parents…PLEASE get your kids to our events and make it a priority in their life, you will thank us later.
• Get to relax tomorrow and spend time with my boys in between driving them everywhere.

Weekend Wrap Up

• Great day today with a tremendous amount of energy.
• Met lots of new families and I’m so glad they are checking out Fellowship Church.
• The band did a great job with worship today.
• They rocked the Use Somebody song by Kings Of Leon.
• Talked about being Made in God’s image…created to serve.
• What is the attitude behind your serving?
• The question was asked, are you willing?
• Had 74 show up for water wars
• Thanks to my team for filling up over 1000 water balloons.
• Kids had a blast.  had so many new kids checking us out.
• On vacation this week, looking forward to the time off.

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