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THE PUDDING. Life Change.

April 1, 2011 in Life Change, Revolution Church with Comments Off

The proof is in the pudding…and here is the pudding Revolution Church!

LIFE CHANGE!

Click here to see all the pics from Baptism on Sunday.

Giving all we have got

March 30, 2011 in Creativity, GOD, Life Change, Revolution Church with Comments Off

On Sunday we kicked off The ILLUMINATE INITIATIVE. I’ve been praying and preparing for this special opportunity for about 8 months now. Through my time in prayer I felt very strong about turning everything upside down to kick it all off.

So we kicked off the whole initiative by giving away $10,000 to the peeps in the seats, which was about all we have as a church. Yes, you read that correctly: We began our first ever special giving initiative by giving away the equivalent of an entire month’s worth of our offerings. And, we didn’t even take up an offering on Sunday.

Everyone in each service got an enveople with either $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 or $1,000 in it.

The rules were simple:

Take this money and use it to bless someone beyond yourself.
Share what you did with it by emailing amen@revyourlife.com
You cannot give it back to the church.

We set up a web site here for people to go and read the stories of blessing.

During the message we had two main scriptures: Matthew 25:14-30 and Genesis 12:1-3.
God has entrusted each of us with different amounts of His resources, and He wants to see a Kingdom return on it. He has blessed us so we can become the blessing in the lives of those we come into contact with!

This was not a gimmick.

It was a huge sacrifice. It was incredibly risky.

But I felt like God was saying GO FOR IT! DO THIS!

I believe that God will honor our acts of audacious faith and generosity to our area, and place the lifestyle of generosity deep inside of us through it. The time to become a generous church is NOW…while we are still young so we don’t have to try to teach an old dog new tricks later on in life.

Since I believe all of this, I am praying HUGE prayers this week for you. I am praying that God would really drill it into our hearts that we are blessed to become a blessing to those He puts in our lives.

THAT is the whole point of this special season at Revolution Church…to ILLUMINATE our area with the Gospel and the LOVE that Jesus poured out on the cross and become the blessing that people need!

ITS TIME TO LIGHT IT UP!

If you missed Sunday’s sermon, go listen here.

And I will see you Sunday. GO BLESS BACK!

A Promise Made with ALL We have

March 28, 2011 in GOD, Leadership, Revolution Church with Comments Off

I can see it already. “Church pays people to attend service.”

Revolution Church is NOT Lesko.

Let me share the REAL story with you…

Sunday was insane. I am still pumped up on the adrenaline!

Over four months ago I felt led by God to give away all that we had as a church. This was something we had been planning to do for over 4 months, but as developments with a possible building for us suddenly dropped into our lap, I had decided to move the idea up 3 weeks.

Sunday, March 6th we were going to just go for it.

We called the bank and said get ready, we are coming to pickup a lot of cash!

And then, that Friday when we were supposed to get the cash, I chickened out. I’m still not certain why…other than the fact that this was a HUGE risk for us as a church!

Mean.

Huge.

But I chickened out.

Instead that Sunday, I challenged our church to fast for 3 days and pray about the new possible building we might get. And as over 100 people fasted and prayed their guts out for that possible building, I asked God to forgive me for not listening to Him. And I committed to God that I would never again go yellow on something I felt Him leading us to do, no matter how crazy or risky it may be.

So, we stepped back, prayed again and then went with our original plan and yesterday, March 27th, we kicked off a special series and giving initiative called Illuminate. We got crazy with our faith.

We gave away four weeks worth of offerings. Just over $10,000.

See why I chickened out?

We stuck it all in envelopes. Some people got $5. Some $50. Some $100…all the way up to $1,000.

And I instructed everyone to go and simply become a blessing to someone! The rules were simple: bless someone, share the story and you can’t give it back to the church in any way.

So, as you can see, it was a big, crazy, audacious, scary Sunday for me and for us as a church.

But none of that was the huge deal Sunday.

This was the HUGE thing, just in case you missed it:

During the message I confessed to our church that I had chickened out on doing this three weeks ago.

I manned up, got up in front of Revolution and shared a promise that I made to God (and to our church) this week.

I said: “I want to make a promise to you that as the leader of this church that I will NEVER AGAIN chicken out or run from ANYTHING that I believe God has told us to do. IF GOD SAYS GO, WE WILL GO, PERIOD.”

And here is THE best part. During one of the services, when I said that, a man yelled out “THANK YOU!”

WOW.

These are the defining moments that will set us up as a church and literally characterize us for the rest of our lives and beyond!

I am so proud of YOU Revolution!!! And I am PUMPED about whatever God has next!