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September 22, 2011 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Wanted to wait this week to post this until I was done speaking Sunday – Wednesday nights at the Greenvillage Church of God.
  • I’ll start though with our Sunday morning at ExponentialChurch.tv.
  • The morning went pretty smoothly however I was probably as discouraged afterwards as I have at any point in our almost 1 year of existence.
  • We did a big mailer for our new series on how to discover God’s will for your life, plus I figured everyone would be done with vacations, etc.
  • Guess not…we had 12 alone from our serving team gone and by the time the day was done we had even less people than we had the weekend before.
  • It’s frustrating putting all the time, energy and resources into something and then not seeing the results you had hoped for.
  • Oh well, God knows what He’s doing and our job is to continue to be faithful and plant seeds and He’ll bring the results.
  • Speaking of…we had 2 more people pray to ask Jesus for His forgiveness and leadership on Sunday!
  • Amazing how that puts everything into perspective.
  • That makes 107 salvation’s now in 11 months!
  • Even though I don’t understand it all and get frustrated, God continues to do amazing things so my I’m just trying not to hinder His work.
  • Speaking of good work, it was great to have Greg Hench and George Jensen with us on Sunday.
  • They are both pastors in our denomination doing a great job.
  • The band as always did an amazing job on Sunday and it was cool having my niece Taylor help out in the tech area.
  • She was so nervous that she was going to mess up but she, Mike and Cris did a great job in Andy’s absence.
  • For those of you who might have missed the message, you can listen to it hear.
  • As I mentioned earlier Sunday-Wednesday night I spoke at Greenvillage on relationships.
  • It was a great 4 nights getting to know people and share God’s Word about marriage, dating, relationships and sex.
  • I essentially used a lot of the content from the ONE series I did in February here at Exponential if you’re interested in hearing what I shared.
  • The only exception was last night I did a message on communication instead of doing the Q&A like I did at ECTV.
  • For those of you who were there, you can probably figure out why.
  • I was surprised they wanted me to do the content for the 1st 3 nights much less what gets discussed in the Q&A.
  • Monday night I left the house at 5:10pm for the 45-50 minute drive.  This would still put me there with an hour to spare.
  • By 6pm I had gone all of 11 miles.  I knew right then and there I was in big trouble.
  • Turns out they had closed I-81 because of a bad accident.
  • I contacted the church and told them I’d get there ASAP.
  • It was 7:35pm until I arrived but they were very gracious.
  • In now 22 years of doing various types of public speaking, this is the first time I’ve ever been late.
  • The only thing I kept thinking though was…”At least now I can use a joke I’ve always wanted to use in a situation like this”.
  • I’m not sharing what it was in case you are ever at a place I’m late for, but let’s just say it got a roaring laugh!
  • It was great seeing the crowd get younger and younger each night…young people definitely need to hear what I shared.
  • Last night I guy shared a funny story with me that you’ll will get if you’ve ever heard me talk about sex (which I did on Tuesday night).  He said he went home and started folding laundry.  His wife looked at him funny and said, “What are you doing”?  His response, “Starting the crock pot”!  🙂
  • All in all it was a great 4 nights and many said how much they enjoyed it so hopefully I’ll be invited back someday.
  • I also challenged them to be more evangelistic as a church so pray that those seeds I planted take root as well.
  • Pray for their church as they are between pastors right now and seeking who and what God has for them next.
  • I’m pretty exhausted but yet excited at the same time for what God has in store for us at ECTV this week as we continue the Unveil series.
  • See you then…don’t forget to invite a friend.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andy Krull, Cris Cramer, ExponentialChurch.tv, George Jensen, gilbert thurston, God's will, Greenvillage Church of God, Greg Hench, Mike Sellers, One Series, salvation, Taylor Duda, Unveil Series

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