Sunday Remix

It's been a while since I did a Sunday remix. So is what is randomly floating through this head of mine.

• Pumped about our first Launch Gathering this Friday. Don't know how many will come but I'm pumped to be doing what God has put on our heart.
• I really want to write a book. I've been tossing around several ideas and I'm liking them. I even have one started. My passion is to write for me. Putting down some ideas that have been successful in what we have done and maybe can be successful for someone.
• I think I'm moving my time line up on creating two different blogs. One is going to be more personal, about my journey, and this blog I think will take a more serious thread.
• I have an idea for a post or a post series called, "The Curse of Charismata". Don't know if I want to let you in on it but it will be pretty hard hitting.
• The fried turkey I cooked on Thursday sure was good even as left overs today.
• If you are in the Coastal Bend Area and want to be a part of a movement that is going to make the Coastal Bend the hardest place to go to hell, hit me up. This Friday will be our first meeting. Check out more info at our Journey Community Church Myspace.
• I got a couple of projects that have been on the stall due to the holidays but hope to get them cranking...one of those is the pastor internet round table.
• I am fixing to do a myspace/facebook presence for a local area church. This is something I'd like to do on my spare time for others churches.
• Did I tell you I'm pumped about Friday???
  

Sunday Remix

Here are my remixed thoughts from today:

• It felt weird not having to get ready to do anything for today. Don't know if I like that.
• We chose to go to Bayarea Fellowship today with some great friends of ours Scott and Dawn.
• I really love what and how they approach church over at Bayarea. It is totally geared to reach the unchurched. That is probably why I like it so much. Not because I'm unchurched...because that is my approach to ministry.
• Got to see John Atkinson over there at Bayarea. I've had a little interaction through blogging and email with John and would really like to build a friendship with him since we live in the same town. Check out his blog.
  
• Why have we taken the most awesome message and made it so boring in most churches.
• The message of the Good News deserves the most creative and exciting approach their can be.
• Most Christians need to learn to feed their selves and quit relying on Sunday Morning to do it.
• Ever felt like Sunday was a divine appointment just for you. That is how I felt over there. God used Bil to speak totally to me all throughout the message. It was crazy. It has been a while since that has happened to me. I am going to try and do a separate post just on that.
• Pray for us this week. I don't like to spend a lot of time using my blog for this but it is going to be hard financially. Pray.
• Since being away from Journey Church and Church of Hope I have been at so much peace internally. I'm not going to elaborate much but in the long run it is going to be the best thing that ever happened to us.
• It would be so easy to just get up on Sunday's and attend church, but I'm not looking for easy.
• I know that God has a destiny and we are going to fulfill it. It is already ordained and I'm no quitter.
• Feel like David in the cave of Adullam right now. I'll probably elaborate this week.
• I have gotten two calls that have really encouraged me this weekend and have me realizing that God is so for us. They were out of the blue and I had absolutely nothing to do with them. I really feel it is because I have thrown this whole situation to God.
• This week I want to really get concise as to the vision God has for our lives. I wish I didn't have to sub and could really lay it out so I'm going to do it the best I can with the time I have.
• I wish this was the ______ ______ Church remix but it's not....SOON!!!!
• I have had over 19,000 views of all my videos on youtube. That's crazy. Visit http://youtube.com/user/jaycurl44 to check them out.
• I think I want to do a post called "Pride In The Pulpit". I'll pray about that...it could be hott to handle!
  

Sunday Remix

Here is the remix of the day:

• This morning's message went great. It was the first time I had ever committed a whole message on John 14:6. I felt it came out great. My wife even complemented me. Believe it or not she doesn't give me any freebies and is a great critic to me. That's a critic in a good way as she pushes me to communicate better.
• Today was the first time my parents have ever seen me preach. They have heard me but never seen me live. It was great to have them down in our experience this morning.
• This afternoon I had hot grease spatter in my eye. I'm ok it really was just a major irritation all evening.
• Our youngest daughter broke her arm tonight with the help of her sister. It was not a major break so there was good news. Pray for a quick healing as she is very, very active.
• I absolutely love the worship from Lifechurch.tv's South Oklahoma City campus. It is right up my alley.
• Trying to keep it short ala Gina's post. Hope I made it.
• Can't wait for Heroes tomorrow.
  

Sunday Remix

Thoughts from Week 9.

• Hard to believe that around 7 or 8 years ago I stood on a platform in Church and told God that I never wanted to be a Sr. Pastor...and now here we are in Journey Church as one of the Sr. Leadership Pastors.
• There is so much in the message this morning. Making Disciples is a huge subject. Speaking on it this morning was only the tip of the iceberg.
• My buddy Randy knocked it out of the park this morning as they kicked off their first ever church service of LifePointe...100 people...19 kids...20 decisions for Christ....Way 2 Go Bro!!!
• This morning I felt good during the message but felt a little bogged down in the middle.
• We were missing key people this morning due to sickness...even in all that we set up faster than ever.
• Really feel momentum each week and that God is preparing us for what He wants to do.
• We are so close to securing a site for our Student Ministry in the Calallen/Tuloso-Midway Area. I know most of you have no clue where that is. Anyway pray for us. To pull it off we are going to need a youth leader. I'm a great stand-in for now but for it to be successful it needs a strong leader.
• I feel we have to get sharper in our systems as they are going to be key to God using us in a great way. I know a lot of churches that don't get that point.
• Music set was great this morning. I love The Stand by Hillsong United.
• Pumped for next week...we are doing a message called "I Am The Way". It's going to be a pure gospel message. Pray for God to draw in the lost and Journey Church to reach 'em.
• Heroes Season 2 tomorrow...I'm so ready.
  

Sunday Remix

7th Sunday is done...Here are my thoughts on the day.

• So far our average is staying even. We had 44 in attendance. And every week we get a little smoother.
• Today, we had live music. We still need musicians if you know anyone out there.
• The message I had for our Journey Kids was right on this morning. I talked about sin and how serious Jesus takes it. It went great. I had one kid choose to follow Christ today.
• Great testimony brought back to us this week after I prayed for one of our partners last week. I hope to get her to type out and I can share it with everyone.
• I am so pumped to preach in two weeks. I'll be going two weeks in a row. One of them I will be giving a clear presentation of the gospel.
  

Sunday Remix

Thoughts from today as I wind down the evening:

• Journey Church was hitting today with 60 total attendance in our 6th week. Folks this is an awesome number. We have really done no major marketing at all. Only word of mouth. If you go to Journey the time is now to spread the word. Let's reach this area.
• There were three churches meeting at our hotel location today. That is totally crazy. The Holiday Inn must be the birthplace of churches for this city.
• I have really decided that I and my wife are not children's pastor. We do a "good" job. But we need someone in there that can do a "great" job.
• If you would like to partner with us you can do that in several ways. We need people who want to be in on the ground floor of a movement sweeping across the Coastal Bend.
• Let me expound on that 60 number for a moment. After 3 years the average church plant has 43 people...God is already doing something great with Journey. After 6 weeks our average attendance is 41 people. PRAISE GOD!!!
• I'm bummed that our myspace has been down since last Wednesday. And then today it was totally down. It has been our major source of getting the word out about Journey as we build up this church to the point of getting a website. I may be breaking down tomorrow and building another one tell they do something with it.
• Still pumped about getting 1,000 visits last month. For a guy how really is a nobody on the church scene and doesn't really have a lot of connections out there, I'm really pleased with where this blog has gone.
• This week is our second Journey Student Connect Group. I was pumped about last week's attendance and look forward to this week. I really want to shore up a youth director soon though.
• I really want to blog on how God uses prayer and systems to grow a church. I might do that after my next series of posts on Going To The Next Level.
• Jacked about Heroes starting soon. Best series on tv...no doubt.
• I'm a secret BB fan. Oops, I guess the cats out of the bag.
• I redirected our website name to our podcast page so people could continue to listen to our podcast.
• I busted my butt the last two days on powerpoint stuff and a video. Boy am I ready to turn that one over. Every weekend I spend about 3 hours on powerpoint. I want things to look great as we start out even though I don't have a volunteer to make them. Great thing is I have two awesome ladies stepping up to the plate to help on Sunday mornings.
• God came through this morning for our family personally...thanks for your prayers and continual support.

Sunday Remix

Fifth week in the books at Journey Church. It is neat to see what is happening.

Of course when you start something, you want everybody and their granma's granma there. You hope that all your past friends are going to be there to support you and jump onboard. You hope God is going to draw in the lost. You really have a whole lot of expectations.

• I had a real sense of coming together today. It felt like our body was on board and they were working. First time so far I felt a real sense of momentum.
  
• Over 50% of our adults were serving in some capacity today. I'm just not going to by into the urban-church myth that says only 20% serve. Nope...Not gonna do it.
• I got to preach today. Love Your Enemies was my topic. Tough one for me. Aggghhh.... Guess those people that have done me wrong are gonna have to look for some love. I'll be praying for ya.
• "I" forgot to plug in the laptop so our computer died 3/4 of the way through the message. So tonight I am hopefully re-doing that portion for our podcast.
• Our connexion lunch went awesome yesterday. We had a great response and it is something I see can help our new guests get onboard.
  

Elevate Remix 6-27-07

This is the first episode of the Elevate Remix. A confessional on our Elevate Meeting.