Saturday Night Mind Dump… (Sunday Edition)

• Normally I do this on Saturday night, hence the title, but I came home last night and was spent from the night and the week, so I ate with Katie and went to bed
• After watching the highlights and press conferences from my Steelers win
• I was kind of glad I was preaching during the second half because I was stressed watching the highlights
• Last night was a good night at Revolution, different than normal
• Usually, I look for moments in my sermons and things to say in the passage that are these life changing moments that will create immediate steps
• Last night’s passage and topic: faith and doubt, was more of a challenge to our thinking
• For me, this was a challenging talk to work through
• I told Paul beforehand that I felt an unusually heavy weight about the topic
• Unfortunately, we had some technical difficulties and we weren’t able to record the talk
• I did however put together a quick write up on what I talked about that you can read here
• I am continually blown away every week at the amount of guests we have and how God continues to work in people’s lives
• If we keep this up, we are going to move to 2 services really quickly
• Love that God is using us to help people find their way back to God
• Right now, God is doing a lot of work behind the scenes in my life and in our leaders as we think and pray through how to become  a reproducing church
• We are doing a lot of reading, talking with other churches and praying through how to create a movement of churches in Tucson
• I’ll be sharing more about those plans over the coming months and how God is preparing us for what is ahead
• My prayer is that in the next 5 years we are able to launch 2 – 3 sites or church plants
• A lot of this has to do with our partnership with Acts 29 which has pushed us to talk through how we develop leaders, , worship leaders, communicators, pastors and church planters
• I love thinking like this, praying big prayers and asking God to use us to change a city through building a network of churches all across Tucson instead of building one large church in a single area
• This has been pushing my thinking when it comes to community, mission and discipleship
• Grateful to Jeff Vanderstelt and the way he has challenged me through conversations and his talks
• I would ask for your prayers because I believe the next few months are going to pivotal to the next decade at Revolution
• On a different note, and a really positive one, my Steelers moved forward in the playoffs
• I am a Jets fan tonight because I’d rather have a home game in the AFC championship game and I’d like to avoid the Patriots
• I’m excited because were hanging out with some Revolutionaries and some of our neighbors to grill out and watch football, praying that we can be a positive example of the gospel to our neighbors tonight
• Heading up to Phoenix again this week for my surge table
• This is something I am getting trained for us to be able to create a school to develop leaders and pastors in house at Revolution
• Can’t wait for this to get off the ground later this year
• As I said, a ton of things are happening behind the scenes right now
• I believe God is positioning us for some great kingdom things right now
• Well, I need to help get ready for football and food with friends