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Two Stories

Mar 27, 2004 Uncategorized

{ MOOD: Tired | NOISE: Kia Commercial }

Story One
We had an amazing leadership retreat this weekend. We had no idea how many people would come, but we had 113!

Paul and Steve taught on our past on the first night and if was so cool to hear all of this amazing stuff. I am still blown away with how much has happened in our little church’s history. I will upload an MP3 later if you care. Then we spent time praying and it was so cool to see 113 leaders praying that God would use them and the church in our area. So cool.

Then this morning, we talked about the vision for our future and we split up into groups and discussed our strategies. Then, when we pulled back together, I saw something awesome. I saw this hundred or so people real excited about what God is doing. I was amazed at their energy and their zeal to have God use them. Steve had challenged us all to consider “What could God do now, today if we imitate those who have gone before?” And I could see in their eyes that they were ready to see the answer to that question.

Story Two
So I met this guy at Riverview tonight. He is Junior at MSU and he was visiting us for the first time. I talked with him before the service even started and he was asking how to get plugged in. And I don’t mean ask, I mean ASK. He was super eager. I asked him his story. He told me that last night he went to “The Passion of Christ” and has decided for the first time in 8 years he needed to go back to church and commit himself to Christ. He has a background in a mainstream denomination but didn’t want to go back there. He asked around and someone recommended Riverview.

I was kinda blown away. This guy had never even been to one of our services yet, but here he was, so eager to get involved. I gave him a bunch of stuff describing who we are and introduced him to Kite and JD and hopefully they will help him plug in.

That might be the single best response I have seen from that movie.