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May 17, 2009 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • What a great day.
  • God’s Spirit was definetely present and lives were changed big time.
  • Having been away all week I wasn’t able to get something together to help cement the message in people’s minds so I thought yesterday that perhaps a good old fashioned altar call might be appropriate.
  • WOW…between the 2 Experiences we had about 150 people come forward.
  • At 9:15 especially it was amazing to see 2 and sometimes 3 rows deep of people the entire length of the stage.
  • The opening video of me being held hostage can be watched here.
    • That video was emotionally and physically demanding, but well worth it…perhaps the best we’ve ever done.
  • Two funny things from this morning…
    • One of the projectors must have gotten hit by a basketball this week (ok that’s not funny at all) and so we needed to get it adjusted.
    • The lift though was not charged up and so we had to patiently put Andy up in the air a few feet at a time.
    • I thought once we got him half way up we should have unplugged it and left him there.
    • My thinking was what better way to illustrate someone being held hostage.
    • The other funny thing was I ran out of water right before I went on stage for the 10:45.
    • I reached in our backstage fridge, but the bottle was completely frozen.
    • Now with less than 2 minutes before I’m to go on stage…and extremely thirsty…I had to figure out something…
    • …so I quickly stuck it in the microwave, not knowing what would happen.
    • Luckily it didn’t explode and I got just enough out of it to take care of my thirst.
    • It’s about 3:00PM as I write this and it still got a big block of ice in it.
  • All in all I’m pleased with today…
  • …it was a very emotional and draining day though so I’m physically hurting big time.
  • Time for a nap and then off with friend’s for dinner and cards.
  • Filed Under: Hostage, Inside Today's Experience's, Sermon Series Tagged With: altar call, Andy Krull, Hostage, United Worship Experience

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