Thoughts from Pastor Steven

Archive for March, 2007

Every tree was a seed…

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

And almost every mega church was po dunk. Once upon a time.
This thought hit the spot for me yesterday. I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours with my good friend Shawn, and my new friends Geoff and Pastor Greg at Seacoast Church.
What great guys. What a great church. They now have 158,329 campuses [...]

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Nice is Overrated

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

We’ve gotten an enormous amount of feedback on this post from last week.
Most of the feedback was good.
And the stuff that wasn’t, well that’s okay too.
I’d rather be criticized than ignored.
My greatest fear is being insignificant, not being misunderstood.
It was the first time I ever made some staff approve an entry before I posted it.
A [...]

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The big deal

Monday, March 12th, 2007

If you don’t know, now you know.
Here’s the biggest announcement we’ve ever made at Elevation…
Hot off the press.
More details to follow…
Are we pumped?
Heck yes.
Have we lost our minds?
Absolutely.

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What are you more afraid of?

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

The high cost of failure or the higher cost of missed opportunity?
The pain of messing up or the deeper pain of missing out?
Making the wrong decision or deciding by not deciding at all?
Falling down or standing still?
Our staff has had to answer these soul searching questions at a whole new level this week.
Elevators, you’ll understand [...]

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