My Announcement-Well Maybe

It's coming soon...nobody even tried to guess on my last hint. Of course it is relation to the church God has been leading us to launch.

How about another hint? Read This.

That one might make it really easy. Maybe not...you still haven't officially heard.

My Announcement

Well, a lot of people know already the announcement about our church plant. At least those on my team. I've been thinking about already sharing it with everyone. Although what would be fun about that. The announcement will be coming sometime this week. But iff you feel like guessing here is a hint:

[Here] is the first clue.

And Bill and David you can't guess.

Reverse Church

What if the primary church really was the home groups and we all came together on Sunday in a mission oriented reach out mindset?

Church Upside Down

Taking The Cut Up A Notch

Ok friends...nitty gritty time...I feel a fast/spiritual awakening time coming on. If I'm going to do what we are about to do then I'm going to need His presence and fire in me more than ever.

This is going to be a 50 day push beginning tomorrow, March 22nd, and will end May 10th. Here is what I feel God challenging me to do. Don't worry I'm really asking him if He is sure.

I'm going to do my best to chronicle this here. I believe that will challenge me.

If anyone else out there feels like they could accept this challenge, or even part of it, let me know. I could use a partner to help keep me honest.

The Details:

• Cut back to 50 blog subscriptions. And once a week on my fast day not read any of them. Today, I cut it back from 115 to 50. Don't worry Bill I still have both of yours in there...although Batterson, Noble, Arment, Stevens, Morgan, Furtick, and Lamb didn't make the cut. I figure enough people follow them and they wouldn't miss me for 50 days. This was a brutal one for me. I have made so many friends and it was hard to narrow down to who to cut and not cut. If you didn't make it don't take offense. I am also not reading my twitter friends feed during this time. It's just gotten too big for now. (Why not cut them all out? Glad you asked...cutting this amount is almost the equivalent of that. It's like drinking water for me for a day.)
  
• Read through book of Acts twice during this time. I'm also going to read through Visioneering by Andy Stanley. No other books unless I get some on Multi-Sites.
  
• Fast one day a week from eating. Only drinking water for a 24 hour period. 7 weeks=7 days
• Pray one hour a day. 50 days = 50 hours
• Cut back on the Podcasts I listen to. Not sure how this one is going to shape up just yet. But I already cut out 10 subscriptions on it at the time I'm writing this.
  

Embrace It

Great guest post by Gina McClain who posted on my leadership blog Making Difference Makers. She really brought it when talking about Children's Ministry and church. Bold, brash...just my style. Gina is the LifeKIDS director for LifeChurch.tv.

Make sure you read Embrace It...if you already haven't.

Famous

Can we make Jesus so famous that He is known all throughout this world? To where He is more than cuss word?

Is the church making Him famous or infamous?

What "are" we making Him famous for?

Just some questions I'm filtering.

Subjective Innovative Church List

With the innovative lists being released I thought I would release my list of the 10 from that list. Of course every list is subjective based on the people who create it.

My list is made up of those on the list that are innovative to my world.

1. LifeChurch.tv, Edmond, OK, Craig Groeschel
2. Community Christian Church, Naperville, IL, Dave Ferguson
3. Granger Community Church, Granger, IN, Mark Beeson
4. North Point Community Church, Alpharetta, GA, Andy Stanley
5. Flamingo Road Church, Cooper City, FL, Troy Gramling
6. NewSpring Church, Anderson, SC, Perry Noble
7. Elevation Church, Charlotte, SC, Steven Furtick
8. National Community Church, Washington, DC, Mark Batterson
9. Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington, IL, Bill Hybels
10. Crossover Church, Tampa, FL, Tommy Kyllonen