Hope you had an awesome Easter!
I got to have a two hour long, extremely intense spiritual conversation with Jay, my Chinese, atheistic brother-in-law last night. He has crazy questions. Unfortunately it started at past 10:30 so I went to bed at around 1:30, an got up this morning at 6:30 (which is later than I would have liked to).
The juxtaposition was interesting. Talking to a person one-on-one about Jesus, when I "should have" been preparing for my sermon, where I would be talking to hundreds of people about Jesus. Feeling like, "I have to go to sleep or I'm gonna suck tomorrow when I get to tell all those people about Jesus ... but I'm here getting to tell someone about Jesus..." So the whole time I had this undercurrent of prayer, "God, help me get through to Jay, and help me to have a supernatural source of energy tomorrow."
I wasn't tired this morning (though I am a little now!) and things went awesome. Our attendance was up more than 250 people from last week, the service went great, now hopefully those peoplee will come back!
How did your Easter go?
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
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I can remember one Easter you may have been a bit more tired! :-)
Great job today Brother Vince! Preach it; Hallelujah; PTL; etc..., etc.., Brother Courtney and Brother Campolo would have been proud of ya!
Hey Vince, my name's Ariel and I'm the youth and young adults pastor at Del Sol Church, a church of about 900 average attendance here in El Paso, TX. Today, God blessed up with the privilege of having nearly 1,350 people in 3 services.
Last Tuesday in staff meeting I asked what we would do if we ran out of seats, especially at our 11 am service and most of the staff said that seating probably won't be an issue because both of the school districts that most our church family are from are on spring break, so many are out of town.
They didn't know that I was praying that this Easter would be one of the greatest ones ever at our church.
We nearly ran out of seats at our 2nd service and for our 3rd service we had to bring in about 50 extra chairs because people kept coming in.
It was a GREAT problem to have. I was praying for you and for some of my other favorite churches; I knew God would do something great today and He sure did. I pray that we all connected with the people that came in our doors today, that they connected with the God we love so much, and I pray that they will come back next week and journey closer to God with our church families.
Ariel: Thank you so much for sharing that - that is awesome! And I totally appreciate your prayers for us ... they worked!
Vince, Easter was awesome in Nashville. Glad to hear God used you guys in some amazing ways. Hope you can get some rest today.
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