Recently I sat with all of our worship leaders at Elevation and asked the question, “What are the keys to creating a worship ministry that is in line with the vision of the church and the senior pastor?�
Senior Pastors, you might want to grab your worship team and gather around. Worship Leaders, I think [...]
God expects all of His children to walk in authority. This expectation is even more pronounced for me as a pastor. I am commissioned to conduct my life with great confidence in my calling.Â
It’s a sin when I fail to walk in authority. When I don’t respond to challenges with a holy boldness, it reveals [...]
It happened again the other day! The conversation was going so well. I was actually kind of surprised when the person I was talking to (who I was meeting for the first time) just had to go there. Now, there was no way this guy could have known that the pastor he [...]
When Craig Groeschel told me about his idea for the One Prayer series, I had two simultaneous thoughts: 1) this guy is a genius, 2) why haven’t we thought of this before?
The idea was so simple. The conversation went something like this:
Craig: Do we really believe that video teaching works?
Me: Yes, I think so.
Craig: Then [...]
On Easter Sunday we saw 543 people make decisions for Christ!
And even though we know it’s not about a formula, we still need to bring our very best effort. Today’s audio blog is a discussion with Pastor Steven Furtick and a handful of the Elevation Church staff on the practical side of giving invitations. What’s [...]
The best thing we could think of to make the audio blog better this week was to add more people. So instead of the usual 2 or 3 people, we brought in a crew of 6 for this one. Pastor Steven leads the audio blog, Vision Flows from the Top Down, and we all share [...]
… Over 4800 people attended worship experiences at Elevation this Easter Sunday.
Most importantly, over 500 people accepted Christ as Savior on this landmark day.
All glory to Jesus!
Notable: We were nervous kicking off our new 1 pm service today at our Providence campus… would at least 200 people would show up to achieve critical mass? Over [...]
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Pastor Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Creative Pastor, Larry Hubatka: Writing really good copy is hard to do. If you find someone who can do it, they're worth their weight in gold.
Project Manager, Lisa Shea: Can I clarify I finished the book last night at home. I am too busy projecting to read here!
Children's Director, Jessi Welch: Working on set-up procedures for Sunday.
Worship Pastor, Wade Joye: Had a great lunch with Matt Kelly. He gave me a crash course on different styles of music and how to work them into our worship context.
Assistant to the Lead Pastor, Lori Black: Just finished a video shoot with the Furtick family!
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