Happy Birthday, @NewSpring
Congratulations to @NewSpring church, on their 10th birthday, where @perrynoble is the lead pastor. He Twittered this today:
- Hey @NewSpring…10 years ago today there were 115 people who gathered for our first worship service! We had NO IDEA that God would do…
- …All that HE has done! And…the best is yet to come! Can’t wait until tomorrow!!!
Perry & Lucretia Noble
I passed the tweets on to my small group, and Pastor Ryan replied with this question – “What will we be shaking our heads at in disbelief at what God has done 10 years from now?!”
That got me thinking…
- The rapture?
- That there are now 1,043 people in our small group?
- That our church (Praise Christian Fellowship, in Barkhamsted, CT) now has an average of 1,043 attendees, 85% of whom are striving to go deeper with the Lord, and who invited the other 15% so they can step into eternity also?
- That we’ve run out of chairs 5 times over because members keep inviting friends?
- That we have so many new believers that we have to rethink the way we disciple?
- That, as we look back at 2010, we’ll be amazed at how ignorant, naïve, weak and foolish we were – but we stepped up to the mark anyway, took the risk and lived for Jesus – and it led to the hardest, most exciting and most glorious life-changing decade of our lives, totally dedicated to and utterly vindicated by Christ?
- We’ll be shaking our heads about how life seems to be getting fuller and fuller, and that we can’t wait to see what He has next in His plan.
…or perhaps…
… or perhaps …
The best is yet to come. Always! Can’t wait.
Mike Killiany (Mike Roots)
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