The Lift, February 28, 2010

 A look back on today...

• When you ask God to do big things in your service, know the Satan will try everything he can to not let that happen.  Don't lose truth in Him!
• We have the best production team.  They work hard and are not satisfied with just "Ok."
• If you are not friends with Mike Blackwood on Facebook, you should be!  You missed out on some really cool give aways.
• My kids loved Aaron Lord (the drummer for Chasen) because they thought he was "Oliver Oken" from Disney's Hannah Montana.
• I wish I had gotten one of the life size posters of Jared Barber (bass player for Chasen and fill in worship leader when Mike Blackwood is away).
• Our pastor's message came from Acts 1:6-14.  He talked about "How To Begin A Revolution"
• In North America there are 340,000,000 people and 258,000,000 do not follow Christ.
• New England has 55m people and 83% don't follow Christ.  There are less than 1100 churches trying to reach them.
• Almost 7 billion people worldwide and over 4 billion of them have little or no access to the Gospel of Christ.  1.5 billion have never heard of Jesus.
• Churches must get hold of the lostness of mankind.
• There are 17k more churches in the SBC today than in 1959 and yet we baptized 34k more in 1950 than last year.
• The average church member of the SBC gives 2.5% of their income as tithe.
• If we are to impact our world for Christ we must begin a revolution.
• "No one can possess the Spirit of God and keep that Spirit to himself.  Where the Spirit is He flows forth.  If there is no flowing forth He is not there." - F.B. Myer
• When we truly know and experience Jesus, we will not keep it to ourselves. 
• Our daily mission is to LOVE AND LEAD EVERYONE WE MEET INTO AN EVERYDAY WALK WITH CHRIST.
• There were many people who raised their hand acknowledging the fact that God was calling them into mission work or even full-time ministry as a vocation.  I can't wait to see what happens with those people in the coming weeks and months!!
• On March 14 we are asking you to commit to giving $10 on the 3rd Sunday of each month for missions.
• The Lift setup and breakdown team has some of the most commited volunteers inside of our church.  Thank you team for all of your hard work!