The Rundown (3.22.09)

• Beth & I always wonder what God will do over the course of a Disciple Now weekend and each year we are amazed!!  Students accepting Christ, repenting of sins, worshipping God with power and passion ... I'm just blown away at how God shows up big time every time!! 


• Preaching ... I know the level of passion & intensity has been cranked up lately ... and I think God is really doing a deep work in our whole church right now ... I can even explain how I feel or why all this is happening ... for the 2nd week in a row we broke our non-Easter attendance record ... sort of have that "fear & trembling" thing going on ... asking, "God, what is going on? Keep us in the center of will and full of You.  Help us not just to make church-goers but DISCIPLES!"


• The way our staff is working together right now is absolutely incredible! Thank you team!!


• The movie Slumdog Millionare is AWESOME and a MUST SEE!


• Met with our creative/tech/worship folks this week just to talk through some message ideas for the next several months ... I'm pumped!!  We'll need YOUR help for some of these ideas to work ... stay tuned :)


• My dogs, Bear & Sammie, are feeling neglected from us being gone most of the weekend.


• So this is the one time a year, I actually follow (well, sort of follow) basketball.  Got to admit March Madness is one of, if not the most exciting post-seasons in all of sports.  (No, I don't fill out a bracket.)


• Got a lunch meeting planned with several church planters from the Greater Chattanooga-NW Georgia region.  I'm excited to meet with these pastor-planters ... learn from them and hopefully encourage them on the journey! 


• We have got to plant more churches, launch more sites, etc. etc. -- 3000 churches close down in America every single year and yet the population grows as does the unchurched population!!


• I want to sleep for a long, long time!!