Warning: If you don’t think churches should talk about and analyze numbers, stop reading right now. Go sing Kumbaya with 3 other people who believe just like you do and debate the finer points of the Nicene Creed.

Sorry, I’m feisty today!

If you believe that every number represents a person whom Jesus died for, read on!

We were looking at our numbers from yesterday and I realized a few fascinating things:

1. We had more kids in E-Kidz yesterday (131) than the total number of people we had in worship on our first Sunday just 9 months ago! I think Heather and her volunteer staff are doing an amazing job.

2. We had more volunteers serving yesterday than the total number of people we had in our first worship service. Great job LB, and I love all ya’ll volunteer staff.

3. We had more first time guests at our services yesterday (110) than we had at our first worship service.

4. One fun money number: We took in more money this Sunday than we took in during the entire month of March!

5. There were more middle school students in Spin yesterday than there were in our original core group just a year ago.

6. When I talked with Clayton King this week and asked him if he had a specific number of people that he was praying for to receive Christ, he threw out a weird number: 33.
It was a weird number until exactly 33 people stood up and boldly confessed Jesus as Lord in our 2 services.
I’m not saying he’s a prophet, but if I played the lottery, I’d have Clayton help me pick the numbers.
Pretty amazing. (By the way, this is the most important number of ‘em all!!!)

God is working, and numbers help us to discern and commemorate His activity. All glory to Jesus!
As long as there are hundreds of thousands of people within driving distance of Elevation who don’t know Christ, we’ll be keeping track of numbers… for the glory of God!