Church was so awesome today! we are currently doing the "one" series that a ton of other churches are also doing! Pastor Steven Furtick preached by video today and really blessed our whole church with his message on being audacious!!! We had a great crowd and tons of visitors 20 i believe :) YAY! God is really in controll! Not us!! thank goodness b/c we would have had to close the doors before they opened if it was up to us~ because we are failures, losers, but God in us is amazing and for that i am proud!
Shane really poured his heart out to everyone today...I love how real he is up in front of the church... What u see up there is him 100%... i can say this b/c i am his wife and see him at his weakest and strongest..he may change his style from time to time but that is just outside crap LOL the heart and the man is totally honest!.... He is full of passion and the vision that God gave might not make everyone happy, but if we were making everyone happy than we would be just like everyone else~Shane's heart burns with a fire to see the vision God has given us come forth and birth a slew of people coming to Christ! That is what it is all about!
See, the vision isn't about boards, commitees, dinners (as pastor furtick said) and making the "Church" people happy, but it is about the LOST....If we try and make it all about us then we have lost the vision! Shane and I have tried to make RPC about the vision...sometime distracted by others or stuff going on life as we might call it...we have shaken ourselves to what started the fire in shane at the beginning to bring us to the truth of what we started this church for in the first place..God brought us here through a series of circumstance that He alone allowed gave shane a burning vision and said do it....we have been audacious and taken risks in every way....My prayer for us as a couple and as a church is to continue to be audacious to continue our journey for christ to see lost come to him b/c he is coming ready or not!
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I enjoyed church today so much! The message was awesome and I personally love the fact that Shane is so upfront...he proves that it's not about him, it's about the vision that God has set forth in his heart to lead the lost to Christ and that is what all of Christians were put here to do!
Can't wait to go to church next Sunday!!
Love you!
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