I thoroughly enjoyed preaching about relationships of influence for the past few weeks at Elevation. Entourage was originally intended to be a low key series to round out the summer. It actually ended up to be insanely well attended and notably well received.
The series is over, but I don’t quite feel like we’ve touched [...]
Do I really get to do this? Is it okay to have this much fun being a pastor? If you would have told me 5 years ago that one day I’d get to pastor a church that kicked off the Fall with a series like this, I’d have thought you were using with Axl and [...]
“If you get the impression that we’re all about the numbers, let me clarify…
Of course we’re all about the numbers. What else would we be all about? The spaghetti supper? To hell with the spaghetti supper. I want to see some changed lives!”
This may be the funnest line I’ve ever used in preaching. I’ve said [...]
How do you know when to add staff and what positions to hire?
I try to keep everything really professional-like here on stevenfurtick.com these days. It wasn’t always that way. When we started the blog 11 months ago (1 year anniversary coming up in late September… party details TBA) I wrote about a lot more random, funny stuff. But gradually, as more people started reading this blog, and [...]
Recently I asked our staff to give me 3 words to describe the last year at Elevation Church.
Hands down, the most frequently recurring word was intense.
I like that. I think ministry should be intense. Ultra intense. The death of Jesus was intense. His resurrection was intense. The reality of an eternal hell is intense. So [...]
Jesus took a poll one time. It wasn’t a political poll, because He didn’t (and still doesn’t) need votes. It wasn’t a popularity poll, because He wasn’t (and isn’t) interested in being cool.
It was more of a perception poll:
He asked his inner circle of leaders:
“Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
In other words, [...]
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Pastor Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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