Inside Today's Experience - Gilbert Thurston

Very happy with today!
3 more people started a relationship with Jesus.
Many people commented how much they needed to hear and now apply the message I did on having proper priorities when it comes to how to spend our time.
As Chad said earlier in the week, today was reset day as far as attendance goes since the last two weeks were holiday weekends.
We had a really great sized crowd…hope to keep it going.
Alright as for the other details of the day…
Nice to be back on a normal schedule and without a lot of extra stuff.
Band was done set-up and warm-up early (actually normal time) but after the past few weeks it seemed way early.
During set-up, Lisa called me and said her car broke down so I had to run out to get her.
Once I got there though it started working again…it’s been acting weird the last few weeks so we’ll have to take it in this week for “repairs”.
The band started today with a cover of Coldplay’s song “Paradise”. As always they did awesome but I know Bill was glad to not have to do any more Wooooo’s…especially that high.
Speaking of, he said something awesome during his prayer that Spirit spoke to me about. He said that “today was going to be a day where people go God’s way full-heartedly”. It hit me in the moment that yes as a result of each message people either go FULL-heartedly or FOOL-heartedly.
Aren’t you glad we have a choice!
Speaking of choices, the message today was about making sure as we start a New Year that we don’t misuse our time chasing our things but instead prioritize our relationship with God and family.
The gist of the message was that someone is going to feel cheated, but we get to choose who or what that will be.
For the first time ever, I accidentally forgot to put my phone on vibrate and it went off during the sermon.
You’ll just have to listen to the message to see how I handled it. :)
Love hanging out in the lobby and hearing people’s stories afterwards…God is doing some amazing stuff in our midst!
Next week we start the “Little Faither” series on how to overcome worry.
Here’s a Facebook invite you can share.
Also as I mentioned today the invite cards got delayed in shipping.
If you want some when they come in this week (and you haven’t already let us know), email me and I’ll make sure they get to you.
One of our core values at Exponential is that we must all become World-Class inviters.
Please help to do your part to make sure your family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers come out for this series!
This is such an easy series to invite people to since everyone wants to overcome worry…don’t waste this golden opportunity.

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