- Today was a wild day.
- Errol did an awesome job on drums. Jordan & I have been working with him, and he had a bit of stage fright starting out, but he came around beautifully and wound up rocking it. What a testament to the power of hours and hours of practice.
- BTW, I just love his family. They are incredible and incredibly faithful.
- Today’s sermon was on the importance of baptism, and at the end we gave people a chance to be baptized on the spot if they chose. The invitation was eloquent, something like “If you want to be baptized stand up and let’s go.” Yeah, tact is one of my strong suits.
- We had 2 people spontaneously baptized in 9am service (I was specifically praying for those two yesterday because I really believed it was their time).
- We had 11 people in 10:30 service baptized, which kind of created a traffic jam upstairs. Which is cool.
- For those of you keeping track at home, that’s 13 people who took a gigantic spiritual step today in their faith journey.
- After the sermon, I feel confident that those being baptized knew exactly what they were doing. Which makes it even more awesome.
- Know what’s even cooler? That there are still 5 or 6 people that we know of who are still going to be baptized.
- Know what’s even cooler than that? That we just baptized several people a few weeks ago.
- RPC, God is up to something incredible in our midst. We MUST NOT take this for granted. Some people go to church their entire lives and never see the things we’ve seen over the last 3 years.
- OK, on to the big announcement: we’re putting our property up for sale. We’re very rapidly filling up both services and will be completely out of room soon, so we must do something. And instead of adding more services, we feel that God is leading to us move forward toward where He wants us to be.
- Word on the street is that there’s a video floating around out there…
- We’re selling because of our space issues, but I’m not gonna lie – I’ve hated sending people outside to use the restrooms for over 7 years. That’s 378 Sundays for those of you keeping count (I know I am).
- So what’s up next for us? Where are we going? We had a cookout today and shared the news with our Family Group Leaders. If you weren’t there you’ll just have to wait until December 6th for the rest of the story.
- Oh yeah, by the way: you won’t want to miss December 6th. It’ll be one of the biggest Sundays in the history of RPC. We’re talking EPIC.
- I’m so thankful for our staff, trustees, and leaders who came out today. It’s so incredible to see the “leadership horsepower” that God has assembled at RPC. It’s almost as if He’s planning for something BIG around here.
- I’m also thankful for the ones who weren’t able to be there today. We were missing some key folks but it’s all good.
- Whew. That’s a lot of typing. Told you it was a big day.
- I’m out.
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REJOICING, REJOICING, REJOICING!!! I may be rejoicing from afar, but my heart is close to you all! Praising God for amazing victories! GOD IS GOOD!!
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