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Well…no surprise but this Sunday way huge. It never gets old to hear people talking about ways to reach people for the Gospel. Here are some of my thoughts on Sunday

• 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 is probably the most convicting scripture that I have ever read, let alone preached
• We need to serve the nonbelievers in out community by proclaiming the Gospel
• Jesus, not having sin became sin for us.  THAT BLOWS MY MIND!
• The old is gone and we are new creations IN CHRIST
• We prayed for a Journey group that will be elevated Jesus on Wednesday…AWESOME!
• We we place our Faith in Christ we are brought into harmony with THE CREATOR
• Jesus Messiah…great worship song for today
• Our children’s team rocks.  I walked into a room full of leaders planing our first VBS
• If we aren’t about 1 Corinthians 5:17-21 we need to go flip burgers
• If you weren’t excited about the Gospel after church today then you need to check your pulse

The best is yet to come.

Pastor Jeff

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Sunday was awesome!! It is very exciting to see God at work in our church. If you didn’t hear Gale’s story you can watch it HERE. We started a new series, ReThink Training, and it was great to hear everyone’s responses after church. Here are some highlights:

• Prayer is essential to the livelihood of our church and our spiritual lives
• Fasting should be a part of our spiritual lives
• Our church brought in 65 pairs of shoes for edgeoutreach.com
• The backbone of our church will be built of spiritual disciplines
• Jesus gave us the model prayer in Matthew 6
• We can glorify God by acknowledging his plan
• The best is yet it come

Can’t wait for next week!

Jeff

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We finished the Foundation Series this Sunday and it was apparent that God was at work.  People were coming up to me after the services talking about ways they are going to reach our community, that pumps me up!! Here are some thoughts about Sunday:

• Its time to make BOLD moves for the Kingdom
• Jesus will always be there to bring us to safety
• There is a passion for the Gospel that is starting to stir in our church!!
• Fear sometimes keeps us in the boat
• We are going to intentionally reach our community
• When we make BOLD moves JESUS is elevated
• People experience JESUS when we make BOLD moves
• Jesus is inviting us to make BOLD moves like he invited Peter to walk on the water
• You guys gave the most in the history of our church!

This week was awesome and the best is yet to come.  Be faithful and available!

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Week two of Foundation and we unpacked Acts 1:8.  It was an awesome day as we started to understand just who we are going to reach as a church.  Here are a few thoughts.

• We have access the Holy Spirit (that’s the Spirit of God!!)
• We are going to rock our community
• God is stirring the hearts of our people to reach the unreached
• We all have a Jerusalem
• I love our new building
• Watch out IUS (go Lara and Heather)
• We have an awesome Youth Ministry team
• We have TONS of Kids
• Our volunteers ROCK
• Next week is going to be awesome as we unfold our plan to reach our community

Hold on tight Journey.  God is a work and he is going to use us in a big way but we must be willing a ready to go!

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So…we started a new series called Foundation and Sunday we talked about the foundation of Journey Church.  To sum it all up…its Jesus!  But here are my thoughts anyway.

• Church in America is in decline and we are going to do something about it
• We have TONS of children (man it would be good if we had a Student and Family Pastor)
• Journey Church exists to share Jesus with people and to see them baptized and become disciples
• You exist to….well, tell people about Jesus and help them to become disciples
• It’s time to roll up our sleeves
• Yes, I said I would eat wood (sometimes my mouth moves but my brain does not)
• Some of you need to call Bart and tell him you want to LEAD a journey group
• Some of you need to call Bart and tell him you want to HOST a journey group
• American spoiled version of the Great Commission (need I say more?)
• Don’t know why but God is up to something huge in our church!! (stand by because its going to be awesome)
• Last day at Silver Creek
• The CROSS is real and we have a REAL command to tell people about Jesus

Next week we continue the Foundation series and we are going to talk about who we are going to reach as a church.  I have a strong suspicion it will be people who do not know Jesus but come and hear what our Biblical Foundation is for reaching people.

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I will keep this short.

• Jesus is alive
• Three people stepped over from death to live today!
• Its time to come home
• We are not going to stop until we hit 0%

Expect God is do big things this week through our Journey Groups and next Sunday.  Looking forward to it.

Jeff

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Just a few thoughts from Sunday morning as we wrapped up our series in Jonah:

• The best is yet to come
• God is at work in the lives other people, even our enemies
• We have not right to angry if we are taping into God’s grace
• We can’t have double standards
• Our children’s ministry and volunteers are the BEST!
• God is calling us to our community
• Change is among us and it going to be awesome
• New building same purpose
• God is freeing us up to focus on people and not facilities
• We had our first official business meeting with no cussing or name calling(are you sure we are Baptist??)
• God will use his people even disobedient ones, God is that awesome.

That is it for now.  Don’t forget to invite people to Easter Sunday and our Easter Egg Hunt and Cook Out.

Jeff

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Wow, what a powerful Sunday.  We are seeing God move in a huge way.  I love when I see our people invest in new families that visit our church.  There is never a shortage of friendliness.  Here are some thoughts of reflection on Sunday:

• We all have a message
• Simple messages can have a big impact
• God is huge!!!
• There is hope for the hurting
• God is passionate about our community
• We have an obligation to tell our message
• Our messages should point people to Jesus
• We will see revival
• According to our children’s ministry team our chairs are all wrecked out
• We need more space for our children!! (this is a good problem by the way)
• We all have three people who need to hear our message

That’s about it…make sure and tell your message and don’t forget to invite people to our Easter Egg Hunt and Cook Out.

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God is doing big things at Journey Church.  I just wanted to take a quick reflection on what we experienced today at church:

• God is always in control
• We need to run towards the will of God
• Our actions affect others
• Running away is not the answer
• God’s will, will be accomplished with us or without us
• We may have quit on God but God has not quit on us
• We need to reach out to our neighbors. co-workers, family and friends
• We had a room full of Journey Group Leaders
• We have the best Children’s Ministry Leaders in the world
• Lots of outreach to be done in our community
• We are training so we can take this ministry public in the Fall

I encourage everyone to start praying about who you will bring on Easter Sunday.  This is a great way to invite the people you have been building relationships with and we are starting a new series that Sunday called “Jesus Is…”  its going to be awesome and people will hear the Gospel.

Pastor Jeff

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