Inside Today's Experience - Gilbert Thurston

Good news, bad news kind of day.
The bad news is I thought my sermon was one of my worst ever.
I just never got into a good flow.
Usually when I’m not really feeling a message, God takes over and it all seems to click.
Not today though.
However, just because I wasn’t feeling it doesn’t mean that God didn’t still use it.
Had a few people tell me this was one of their favorite messages they’ve ever heard me do.
And now for the good news…
4 more professions of faith today!
Like last week i find this slightly amusing since today’s message was on how to verbally share your faith with other people.
Ironic huh? Taught on how to share your faith and 4 people realized that they first need to have faith.
You can listen to the message here if you’re interested.
As a reminder…practice the Bridge Illustration (can be downloaded at the above link under the documents section) and don’t forget to email me your 3 minute testimony so I can review it and make suggestions.
As for the rest of the day, it was kind of weird as well.
Normally we have 40-43 people serve on a Sunday to make everything happen.
Today so many people were gone because of the holiday that we only had about half of that number.
Considering half of those are in the band or tech area, it made for a very short staff.
However, everyone stepped up and did what they could where they could and we didn’t seem to skip a beat.
Love my team! What an awesome group of servants.
Surprisingly, attendance was actually really good today even with a lot of our regulars away.
That’s a good sign that perhaps we’re going to get some good momentum going.
The rest of the day was pretty much as normal…
Set-up and tear-down both went quickly and smoothly.
The band as always did a great job.
It was great to have George and Rebecca Spangler with us today.
George is the current pastor at the Camp Hill Church of God and will be planting Turning Point Church next fall.
We’ll be sharing with you in the coming months ways that we can partner with George to help him as he starts from scratch just like we did in the fall of 2010.
One of our core values is that, “It takes all types of churches to reach all types of people”. We’re honored to be able to help another church here in the local area reach the 425000 that currently don’t have a relationship with Jesus.
Next week we wrap-up the “Just Walk Across the Room” series by looking at having a personal vision for your life that includes being an eternal difference maker.

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