Our church has, by God's grace, been growing and flourishing beyond our expectations this year. God has definitely been working and is at work in our church! One of the greatest joys as a pastor here is to see and have a front row seat to not only God's work in our church body as a whole, but also in the individual level of those apart of it.
When people ask me the question, "hey, how's it going with the new church?" I love to turn them to our website that has our growing collection of God @ Work videos. I recently wrote a post about the "God @ Work Initiative" (CLICK HERE) This post describes the background thought, logic, and preparation to what we hold very dear at our church: Personal Testimony. One of the best ways in God's grace in drawing people to himself is through those who have a story about how God drew them to himself! It's a simple logic: God is at work, and his work is contagious, so let's tell people how he is at work and see how he uses that for his ultimate glory in bringing people to himself through the work of Jesus Christ.
Today I get to work on one of those videos. It is a long tedious process, but one that I will gladly take on because of the proclamation of the gospel, not from a preacher whom you'd expect it from, but from the person sitting next to you in the congregation. It's one thing for a preacher to get up and share the gospel, which our pastoral staff does really well, but it's another, more rewarding thing, to see that Gospel through the Holy Spirit being proclaimed out of the mouths of those it's being preached to!
Our ultimate goal with these God @ Work videos is to glorify God by encouraging and challenging people to get out of their box and share the story of how God brought them to their knees and rescued them in His love through the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ, by faith.
Here are a few examples of the videos I'm talking about, and soon I will post the video of the one I'm working on. Enjoy!
