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Backstage:Elevation

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Guest Blog: Larry Brey, Connections Pastor
Because of the rapid growth Elevation has experienced, churches from all around the country are contacting us to find out what’s going on.  To provide a quality response we started Backstage:Elevation, an opportunity for churches to spend a Sunday at Elevation and get a behind the scenes look at the [...]

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Multi-Site Questions

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Guest Blog: Chunks Corbett, Executive Pastor
This post will be short and sweet.
Elevation Church is a church with several locations. In fact we will be adding a 3rd in the fall and I’m hopeful to add a 4th by Easter 09.
But having multiple locations (especially if they are portable) is not glamorous. Here are a [...]

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How do we remain risky?

Friday, April 4th, 2008

(This is kind of a continuation of yesterday’s post).
What are a couple practical ways to counteract the risk averse reflex that sets in as soon as we secure some level of success?
-Remember.  I can’t think of a better motivation to trust God radically for the future than the memory of His faithfulness in the past.  [...]

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When I first became a pastor

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I don’t know when exactly I became a pastor. The first official service at Elevation happened just over 2 years ago. But I remember very vividly waking up at 5 o’ clock one morning well over a year earlier, gripped by a sense that everything in my life had dramatically and irreversibly changed.
The night before, [...]

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