Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Cookout

This Saturday May 30, Story Church will host our first public event. We're having a free cookout at Brier Creek Community Center from 11-2. That makes this a pretty busy week. It's been great for me to watch our team function from their giftedness and to pull all the details of this event together. We are hoping to feed more than 100 people, and to hopefully share with them the vision of Story Church. If you live in the Triangle, we'd love to see you there! Please pray with us that this event is a success and that we will come into contact with the right people - people who are longing for community, and eager to be a part of a life-giving church.

Hope to see you there!

By the way, for my west coast friends... You may be asking, "What's a cookout?" A few months ago, I would have asked the same question. This is what you and I know as a "BBQ". However, here in the south "BBQ" is something much more specific and pork-like. You can't just throw a burger on the grill here and call it a "BBQ". So now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Visioneering

I'm reading Andy Stanley's great book Visioneering right now and it is really hitting me at just the right time. As we get further along in this church planting adventure, and closer to our launch, I feel more and more inadequate and less and less prepared. I just thought I'd post a few of my favorite nuggets from the first few chapters so far and let you think about them.

"Vision is always accompanied by strong emotion. And the clearer the vision, the stronger the emotion" (10).

"God ordained visions are always too big for us to handle" (42).

"You are not responsible for figuring out how to pull off God's vision for your life. You are responsible to do what you know to do, what you can do. And then you must wait" (56-57).

"If it is just a good idea, you have to make it happen. When God gives you a vision, there's a sense in which you stand back and watch it happen" (57).

"I think it is safe to assume that most Christians are not attempting anything that requires God's intervention" (71).

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