Here are 3 key decisions we made when starting Elevation:
1. We will be staff led.
Some people leave when they figure out they’ll never rise to a power broker position at Elevation by graduating to a deacon board.
And you want them to leave. I promise you do.
2. We will keep our focus.
We won’t try to have [...]
For those of you who think I’m way to cynical and negative on this blog, take this:
I love being a pastor.
I can’t believe I get paid to study the Bible, seek God, and cast vision.
I love getting emails every week about someone who accepted Christ in a worship service. The most recent one was amazing: [...]
It seems like at least once a week either I or one of my pastor friends writes a blog entry about dealing with critics.
It usually consists of us renewing our vow to not waste time responding to haters.
And our logic goes: We’ll never be able to change their minds, so why bother?
I’m going to [...]
Stop reading my blog and go to this one now.
It’s a new blog for church leaders that our entire staff will contribute to.
It’s already stocked with some basic, candid, straightforward entries about our first 62 weeks as a church.
We’ll try to update it 4 times weekly.
Our staff has been given permission to tell you the [...]
Sometimes I feel like maybe we’re getting too big for our britches at Elevation.
Too audacious.
Setting lofty goals that are laughable and preposterous.
Like we’re asking God for too much, too fast.
Then I read something like this in the Bible:
Isaiah 49:6
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant
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… To why Elevation is growing and why God is blessing us, you’ll need to show up 3 hours before our first service or 10 minutes after our last service.
If you only come for the music and slip out during the last song you might think:
“Ok, I get it. A skilled modern rock band, club [...]
Some of my friends say God often wakes them up in the middle of the night and speaks to them and they can’t go back to sleep.
That only happens to me a few times a year.
Thank God.
I mean, almost every night I can barely fall asleep because my mind is racing, but usually once I [...]
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Pastor Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Spurgeon: A New Biography |
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The Houdini Solution |
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