confessions of a church planter

Confession: All week I had a strong feeling that someone or someones were going to accept Jesus at The Vine this week. Add that to the fact that I asked our staff to pray earnestly for the salvation of folks who don’t know Jesus Christ, and I was completely stoked about this morning. Turns out that the prompting and the prayers were dead-on. Our serve teams at The Vine are ridiculous. We gathered at 9:00 for prayer and asked them to pray right there and throughout the morning for people who don’t know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Well, drum roll please…at least four people recognized that they made a decision to place faith in Jesus Christ. That’s awesome! That’s why we exist! That’s why we wanted to build-out a bigger facility!

The second cool thing is that at the 11:00 service we had to bring out more chairs. That’s two weeks in a row. Just to be clear, we didn’t move back the chairs that we moved out last week. So, that means we had more people show up this week at 11:00 than we did last week. Ridiculous. If you go to The Vine, keep it up. If you haven’t been to The Vine, come and check-it-out! It’ll be worth your time I promise.

While I’m certainly fired up about what’s been going on at The Vine, I’m also fired up about what’s going on at a number of churches recently. One of my dear friends (that sounds weird) is a pastor at 12Stone. They’re just down the street from us. Here’s a quote from his twitter: “My fav way to preach is soaking wet from baptizing people the service before. Today was spontaneous goodness all over.” Apparently, over 300 folks were baptized today. What? That’s ridiculously awesome. Keep it up Kevin and 12Stone.

Add that to the people who are going to be baptized at The Vine next week and that’s a good addition to the Kingdom of God!

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