Gilbert Thurston

Random Thoughts About Life, Ministry and Whatever Else Happens to be on my Mind

Inside Today’s Experience

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  • Before I forget, this week I posted a video of our Easter Sunday Experience.  If you’ve ever wanted to see what we do at ExponentialChurch.tv, but haven’t been able to visit here’s your chance.
  • This is also something you can share with your friends if they want to see what we’re about before actually showing up at the theater.
  • Ok on to today…
  • We continued the iLife series today by looking at how God wants us to have financial margin.
  • The whole series has been about margin in various areas of life and today we had a great example of how it works in real life situations.
  • What I mean is I wish we would have had some more time margin this morning in set-up.
  • Andy was gone for his grandfather’s funeral and of course today just had to be the day that we had some equipment failure.
  • This meant having to call him to figure out a go around.
  • We got it all done, but that meant my emotional margin was about spent.
  • This of course then affected the message.
  • I think the point was still made but I know I could have done so much better.
  • In any case we have a great team and everyone pitched in to help.
  • Thanks especially to Mike and Cris for doing more than normal.
  • My biggest disappointment was I missed out on Chelsea’s meeting she had for all the children’s workers and I missed our normal all-team meeting (thanks Chad for filling in).
  • Congratulations to Dennis Kennel and Rhonda Arndt for winning the 5th and 6th iPads.
  • Can’t believe I called the wrong name instead of Rhonda’s…incredibly she had 12 guests with her on the first week of the series.
  • Technically her name wasn’t drawn but I wanted to make sure we rewarded her for doing such an awesome job of being a “World Class Inviter“.
  • I talked today about online giving and our new initiative called “Automate the Important”.  I’ll be sending out the link later today or tomorrow but if you already know you want to give, here’s the link to our secure giving.
  • Thanks in advance for your financial support!
  • Hope everyone has a great week…lot’s of cool stuff happening…keep being the church!

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