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One Prayer Wrap Up

There are so many things flooding through my mind.  One Prayer2009 was awesome.  Yesterday was a fantastic way to end.  If you missed part of the series here is a recap:

If I had ONE PRAYER for the church….

Week 1 – I would pray God make us an environment where people can get one step closer to Jesus.

Week 2 – God let us live as those who are FREE.

Week 3 – God give us PASSION.

Week 4 – We want to live as a church with IT.

Of course, churches with “It” are full of people with “It.”  Churches with “It” are full of people who are elbow deep in ministry.  The conclusion led people to begin to dialogue about how God is calling them to serve each other.  It was AWESOME!

 

This morning our students left for Falls Creek.  I’m floored right now.  It is awe inspiring to know that these students will never ever be the same again.  Wow.

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Challenged

I have only been at ESBC for three weeks.  I have been blessed.  I have been challenged.  I’m in a position of having the opportunity to rethink everything I / we know about church.

This morning I was confronted with a question.  What is currently impossible to do at Emmanuel but if it COULD be done it would totally change our church?  What is the wall that we have hit?  If we could just answer ONE question or solve this ONE problem it would be a total game changer?  What is the breakthrough that we are looking for?  It seems that sometimes it is easy to become so isolated in the current structure that we stop asking this question.  Maybe all this is confusing and we make the question real.  What would it take for families to REALLY be impacted by love in Coweta, Broken Arrow, and Tulsa?  What changes need to happen on Sunday mornings for us to really be in AWE?  Wouldn’t that be an environment where people who are not Christ followers would be completely drawn in?  

Maybe I’m doing WAY too much reThinking.  It would seem that until we really have a paradigm shift these will remain questions.  We have to move beyond the dialogue and together–move to action.