Weekend Wrap Up

• Never have I been more nervous than I was this week.
• Perry Noble said that Easter is the Superbowl of Sunday’s.
• Got great advice from Gary Lamb this week to just put my talk away or I will tweak it forever.
• Got a great idea from Tadd Grandstaff to record my message and listen to it on my iphone.
• Had almost 40 receive Christ today.  God you are incredible!
• I hope that the energy that happened this weekend will happen every weekend.
• Praise band was sick (for those over the age of 35 that is a good thing)
• Production was great from start to finish.
• 2 years ago today was Jess and I’s first day at Fellowship.  Here’s to a great start to year three.
• Our volunteers did a great job and some of our new ones blew my mind today.
• Tear down was a success…if everyone did that every week we could have tear down finished in 30 minutes.  That would be awesome.
• Would love to get more and more of you to serve at our new guest services and greeter team.
• Can’t wait to find out if we are having a boy or girl tomorrow…I will keep you informed.
• Practical Atheist has been such a challenging series for me.
• I can’t believe that God added almost 40 to His kingdom from our church.
• I watched online church services and the churches I saw were packed.
• Newsweek may be a little off that Christianity is dead.
• I heard of thousands of people who came to Christ today.
• Next week we are answering the question, what does it mean to fear God?
• I am beat…ready for bed

I Wonder

Carlos Whittaker wrote this blog and I thought it was powerful…

I wonder.
I wonder how many people, if we actually asked them, keep coming back to our churches because of our stellar Sunday productions.
I wonder if we ask the right people.
I wonder if we stopped, for a while, if people would keep coming.
I wonder if we turned off the lights and pulled the band if more people would come or go.
I wonder if we flipped the teaching time and music time, if it would matter.
I wonder if first time visitors are more concerned with what happens outside the auditorium than what happens inside it.
I wonder if the things we’ve rebelled against are the exact things we’ve become.

I wonder if church buildings will ever be used more than 2% a week.

I wonder if there has been more energy put into our Easter weekend services than our neighbors on the left and right.

I wonder with all the talk of social justice, why those friends keep walking by homeless people without even a smile.
I wonder when we will stop arguing about how to run the church and begin to start running our families.
I wonder how disrespected my dad feels by my generation of preachers saying his way is the wrong way.
I wonder how disrespected my generation of preachers will feel when our kids say our way is the wrong way.
I wonder when church envy will be replaced with prayer for others to succeed.
I wonder if churches without buildings will ever realize how good they have it.
I wonder when church planting became an industry.
I wonder if we know that our opinions are just that, opinions.
I wonder if those who say my church is an inch deep and a mile wide know that they would actually drown in the inch we provide.

Ryan: I wonder if the church will be as excited in July as they are for Easter weekend.

About That Time

Fellowship Church, I have a question for you this morning.  We are three days away from Easter.  Of all the times to invite someone, Christmas and Easter are the easiest times, after all its expected and it is the cultural Christian thing to do, to go to church on those two holidays.  WHO ARE YOU INVITING?

The reality is there are friends, family members, coworkers, neighbors and the homeless guy at Wawa who are dying and going to hell.  What are we doing about it? Who is going to shake up their circle of influence and invite someone to receive Christ.  To hear about healing and forgiveness and hope in a time when all seems lost.

Fellowship will do it’s best to bring the gospel in a relevant and entertaining way, will you do your best to invite and change the course of someones destiny?

This is a heave blog but we have a heavy responsibility and we will unashamedly show people Jesus, will you?