Hey Element Church! We are going to be finishing off demo tonight at 7 PM. Bring gloves, hammers, sledges, wheelbarrows, shovels, cordless drills with phillips bits and anything else you might think of for ripping walls out. We thank SO MUCH the crew that came out last night. You guys ROCK!
Demo Plans
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First Friday
5 06 2008Hey Element Church! First Friday is tomorrow night. We will be meeting at our new location (600 E Carlson) at 7 PM. We’ll spend some great time in prayer and praise. If you haven’t been able to come to First Friday yet we encourage you to do that tomorrow night!
Following Christ,
Jeff
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WiBo speaker #8 THE FINALE
5 06 2008Hey Element Church! The final speaker of the conference was Ed Stetzer. Ed has planted churches and currently, he serves as the Missiologist and Director of the Center for Missional Research at the North American Mission Board in Alpharetta, GA and he is co-pastor of Lake Ridge Church in Cumming, GA. His session was THE PERFECT ending to the conference. He wrapped it all up together tremendously.
His big idea was “going through doubt to faith”. Talked about “to have faith, you must go through doubt”
He had some AMAZING quotes. The first one blew me away. SO TRUE.
“A conference like this can easily become ministry pornography!” What does that mean? “You view unrealistic pictures of a ministry you are never going to have.” WOW WOW WOW! The room was loudly SILENT at that moment.
Speaking on doubt “God is not afraid of your questions. The world is growing increasingly tired of a nice neatly wrapped life.” Speaking of pastors who don’t reveal the difficulties of life they experience. Their hurts. Their doubts. Their fears.
“God promises His presence, not always the answers. He promises us Himself.”
“Saying ‘I don’t know’ to a lost person is not a sign of immaturity but of maturity.”
“Jesus doesn’t always speak happiness but He ALWAYS speaks peace.” Now that’ll preach!
“Thomas was not satisfied with someone else’s experience. He had to experience it himself.” And that is ok. He went through doubt to faith. He talked about how Thomas eventually went the FURTHEST to spread the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection.
He ended with this quote, and it was SO good: “Most of you will never experience ministries like the ones you’ve seen today, and if you do it will hurt more than you ever dreamed and struggle more than you ever thought.” GREAT reminder!
That’s it. MAN it was a lot to swallow in one day but did it REALLY help and challenge me with where we are at. Been evaluating Element, how I am doing things, how we are doing things and where God is taking us. It’s been GREAT! Thanks for letting me share what I got out of the conference. Can’t wait till then next one!
Growing,
Jeff
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Demolition Begins
5 06 2008Hey Element Church! We started demolition last night and it was AWESOME! We had a GREAT group of volunteers come out, 24 to be exact. Some of you guys were absolute animals at ripping out dry wall. We got a majority of the walls out that we needed to. The plan is to get back in tonight at 7 PM and finish the other major wall removal. I’ll post for sure later if that is the case. Then we’ll have some extensive clean up and it’ll be ready for build out as soon as the building permit is released to us. Below is a link to pictures I took last night. Adam has some video that we’ll get up soon as well or show on Sunday. Again, THANK YOU to all who came and helped. There were guys who stayed and continued working after I left at almost 10 PM. AWESOME! Alright, check out the pics HERE.
Following Christ,
Jeff
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