100 adults accepted Christ yesterday in our Sunday morning worship services!
Glory to God!
Then 26 high school students stood to receive Christ at our first ever high school worship experience last night.
A total of 126 salvation decisions on the day!!!
One of our volunteers told me after 3rd service:
“I hope that (seeing people accept Christ) never gets [...]

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It’s 1:16 AM. I just walked in my house after two days in Oklahoma at a roundtable with about 15 of the smartest pastors in the country (I was #16 and certainly didn’t fit in that category.)
I was going to write an email to my staff about what God taught me over the last [...]

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To every high school student who reads this blog and attends Elevation:
When I was a senior in High School, me and about 3 other kids made it our personal mission to get as many of our friends to FCA on Monday nights as humanly possible.
We printed our own flyers. We bribed guys to come with [...]

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I should say thank you to more people, more often.
The investment is minimal, and the pay off is big.
I made a series of decisions over the last month that will involve investing tens of thousands of dollars into some of the staff families at Elevation Church.
I didn’t do it so they would say thank you.
I [...]

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We blame too much stuff on God and other people.
I’ll give you an example.
Or 2.
1. Sometimes we say we’re waiting on God, and we really mean we’re lazy and unwilling to take the risk.
And our lives are stagnant, not because we’re patiently waiting for the Lord, but because we’re stubbornly resisting a challenge.
Don’t label your [...]

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