Unplugged

I couldn't sleep get to sleep last night. I dreamed of element all night long. I woke up at 5:30 am this morning and...I can't wait to have the same feeling again next week. I'm a nervous dreamer. When there is an event or something in my life I dream about it A LOT! I don't think it's worry but a nervous anticipation. Today at 10 AM element unplugged takes place. A non-church, church service. Starting this week we are multiplying our Life Group into three groups which means we won't all be meeting together as a large group each week. So we started Unplugged. We are renting a room in the Holiday Inn Convention Center and we'll worship together, get to know one another and we will be going through a series called "Why?" Each Sunday this summer we'll be asking three questions: 1. Why are we (element) here? 2. Why am I here? 3. What do I do? We'll be applying these three questions to our mission, vision, essential ministries and core values. We could have 8 people today, or we could have 40 I don't know. I counted about 40 people who have been to our events and expressed interest in being a part of Element. God gave me a verse this week that I thought was great for us. I was finishing up the OT prophets for my devos and Zechariah 4:10 leaped off the page: "Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabels hand." Today is a small beginning of something God wants to do. (I know it began before today but...) Today actually feels like church. It feels like home. It feels like "This is what we are here for!" To connect people with the Life in Christ and to help them follow Him completely. In my Oswald Chambers thoughts for today (I'll close with this) he made this incredible statement. "Experience is a gateway, not an end. Beware of building your faith on experience...You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have." LIFE

Following Christ,

Jeff