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Inside Today’s Experience…sort of

June 8, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Ok so it isn’t inside ours, although I heard you had a good day.
  • Today Lisa and I visited Forefront Church in Virginia Beach, Va.
  • Forefront just celebrated their 10th anniversary as a church and tey are doing an incredible job of reaching the lost in their area.  They now meet in 3 locations…including a bar!
  • I started following thier Senior Pastors blog when he started it a few months back and I love his passion for reaching the unchurched and dechurched in his area.
  • A few weeks back Lisa and I got to have lunch with him at a conference and arranged to meet up with him again for lunch today after the service at their main campus.
  • We snapped a lot of pictures of some cool things they do…snagged some flyers to steal some ideas and then went backstage to watch their pre-service meeting/prayer time.
  • Once in our seats, the band rocked out some Mettallica and in the spirit of the series they are doing, they showed a clip from Star Wars and The Office to set-up Vince’s message on forgiving your father if he has wounded you in any way.
  • It was a great message, but they had quite a few technical problems today which as it turned out kills Vince just about as much as it does me.
  • I felt so bad for him…you could tell he was devastated and because of some of the glitches, he will have to re-record the message all over again.  Having been there done that, I can promise you that that is never any fun.
  • We enjoyed lunch with Vince and his wife, Jen at the local Panera Bread, swapping stories and gleaning ideas for the future.
  • Afterwards Lisa and I headed to the beach and relaxed…getting ready now to head out to a nice dinner.
  • All in all a great day…Vince and Jen are a great couple, we got to worship God in a great church and I got my copy of Vince’s book autographed…we’re planning on doing a series based off of it this fall…having just read it in its entirety on this trip, I can tell you that God is going to rock your world!
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