Every once in a while God prompts me to say something to someone that makes me feel very uncomfortable. And in the moments before I say it, I’m really tempted not to. After I say it, I’m really glad I did.
Like recently, I shared with a friend of mine that I thought he was living [...]
Welcome to the Elevation Best Practices Audio Blog. This week’s best practice is The Power of Overreaction.
And for those of you not as familiar with the audio blog format, we’ve posted Monday audio blogs over the last few weeks to give some insight into our approach to ministry.
The audio blogs range in time from 15-30 [...]
What do Inspire and Innovate have in common (other than being two very hip words that start with the letter I?)
They’re both very cool conferences I’ll be speaking at later in 2008.
Now I promise not to turn this blog into a billboard for my conference schedule, mainly because I’m not going to speak at many [...]
The other day I completed about a 2 hour interview that will be aired at our 2 year anniversary celebration on February 10th.
For 2 straight hours (not all of it will air. Whew.) I answered question after question about what God has done in our first 2 years of ministry, and it occurred to me:
God [...]
When something is the right thing to do, now is always the right time to do it. Whether you feel like it or not. Whether your motives are completely correct initially or not. Whether you perceive any immediate reward in it or not.
When your feelings and God’s instructions are at odds with one another, you’ve [...]
It means a lot to a pastor when he asks the people to do something for the sake of the vision… and they do it. That’s pretty much the pattern at Elevation.
When we had to turn lots of people away from our service last Sunday, I politely begged folks to switch to the 8:30am service [...]
Welcome to the Elevation Best Practices Audio Blog. This week’s best practice is A Culture of Intensity.
And for those of you not as familiar with the audio blog format, we’ve posted Monday audio blogs over the last few weeks to give some insight into our approach to ministry.
The audio blogs range in time from 15-30 [...]
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Pastor Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Children's Director, Jessi Welch: Excited for Saturday set-up tomorrow! the new Quest unit is going to be great!
Ekidz Director, Brandon Hibbard: Box trucks take a lot of gas.
Connections Pastor, Larry Brey: The office is becoming a buzz of excitment about baptisms...this Sunday is going to be an amazing continuation of what started last week....
Worship Pastor, Wade Joye: Excited about a medley we came up with for an upcoming worship experience. It is going to be powerful!
Executive Pastor, Chunks Corbett: Getting ready for a new campus, baptisms, the biggest series of the year- The Gospel, contracts, outreach strategy, staffing, and golf.
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