Inside Today's Experience - Gilbert Thurston

Weird that I’ve been waking up on my own the last few weeks around 6am but today when the alarm went off at 6:15, I was dead.
Human nature I guess.
Was excited because Chad was preaching today so it gave me a chance to participate.
Ok, that’s not true, I still had a bunch of stuff to do but didn’t have the pressure of preaching added on top of it.
Last night at about 7pm the theater called and said they had scheduled a movie for 11:30am…uuuuhhhh, what?!?!
We don’t get done until 11:10-11:15 with the Experience and then it’s usually 30-45 minutes to tear everything down and store it.
The manager said, “Just meet in another theater”.
Mmmm…it’s not as easy as that but luckily he was able to work things out so they bumped the start time back so we didn’t have to rush.
However, not that they’re on their summer movie schedule, I’m supposed to call every Wednesday to see if they scheduled an early movie in our theater.
I’m sharing all that to say…a bunch of my time this morning was looking in some of the other theaters to see about moving into one of them.
Just about any of the others could work…the major problem is we are in one of the 3-D theaters so I understand why the theater wants as many movies in there as possible.
Hopefully we can make it through Easter at least and then decide from there what to do.
Other than that it was a pretty normal day.
Chad did a great job continuing the Winning series with a message called, “Winning by Giving“.
He used the Parable of the Talents and the new hit show, “Secret Millionaire” to show how we need to be a good steward of our money and talents.
To help illustrate this we gave everyone who attended today a sealed envelope with instructions not to open it until Chad told them.
During his message everyone opened them to find either $5, $10 or $20.
Great illustration of how we all get different “talents” but yet we’re all equally accountable to God with what we do with it.
The instructions were this…
- Use what you were given to somehow bless someone who needs it.
- Not just give it to them…but be creative in meeting needs.
- You aren’t allowed to spend the money on yourself.
- You can’t give it back to the church…you’ve got to help someone.
- Finally, be accountable with what you did by reporting it at www.WinningByGiving.com
I got $5. Starting to brainstorm how I might use it.
Can’t wait to read the stories of how others use it as well.
To me the big take away was this…all of us feel some amount of pressure in what to do with the $5, $10, or $20 that ExponentialChurch.tv gave us today. However, all of us get much more from God every 2 weeks or so called a paycheck which we’re just as responsible for.
All in all a very good day…got a chance to sneak over and see Chelsea and the kids in action as well.
Love all 3 of my staff members…they do an awesome job!
Next week we make a big announcement of something that’s coming up…can’t wait to share what we’re going to be doing.
Also, next weekend we’ll be sharing communion as a part of the lead up to Easter…so far we’ve been sharing it at dinners, events and in Life Groups…first time in the Experience which should be great!

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