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What Happened To The Man Known As Bobby Williams?
I want to help pastors, church planters, and churches with my limited knowledge (I feel like I can tell you more of what not to do- than DO on most things- but that info is good too).
So as I’ve mentioned before, I will be starting a new blog and soon killing the man known as bobbywilliamslive.com to focus my blogging efforts on helping the church I have the honor to pastor (theridgechurchblog.com) as well as the BIG C church with a new blog effort that will include myself as well as other church leaders/planters. There will even be a nice slice of pie for the planter’s wives out there.
I’m looking forward to this new effort and hope to have something up very soon. So if you see cob webbs around here, don’t be alarmed. There will be new life coming.
It’s The Monday After Easter….
I have a thought similar to this every Easter, but for some reason, it’s more real to me today than it has ever been. The thought is this; It’s Monday and the tomb is STILL empty and Jesus is STILL alive! Simple I know. Profound? Probably not. But it has a world of implications for me, our church, and staff/volunteers.
Every Sunday – every DAY for that matter – is Easter.
I know we should, but dont…
I know we could…but we don’t…
If we put the same energy, focus, passion, enthusiasm, prayer, and planning into every week like we do for Easter, there would be no stopping HIS church.
Why don’t we? The tomb is STILL empty and Jesus is STILL alive. Let’s act like it.
A Church Planter Will….
A church planter will….
- Not take NO for an answer
- Make it work
- Create it if they don’t make it
- Live on the edge of insanity
- Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on us
- Want to quit on Monday and plant again on Tuesday
- Break the bank to reach a community…or just ONE person
- Navigate through more crap than most people
- Use Duct Tape if he has to
- Find a way
- Do it different
- Have too much fun
What would you add to this list?
Bases Are Loaded
After yesterdays service at Ridge Church, I feel like the bases are loaded and our league leading home run king, future hall of famer, best player to ever play the game hitter is up at bat next with a lame pitcher pitching.
I’m not sure I would call yesterdays service the best day ever, but over the last few weeks/months, we’ve been hitting consistent singles, and now the bases are loaded with Easter coming up this Sunday. Yeah…I’m stoked.
Yesterday we simply compelled our people to invite others to Easter services because life is short and hell is hot. I DO care that every seat is filled in our auditorium…TWICE! Because every seat is an opportunity for someone to hear the Gospel this week. We asked people to respond by writing the names of those they were going to invite on a sticky note and place it on the stage. I think every person in the service wrote at least one name down; some notes had 10+ names on it!
This will be our 3rd Easter service as a church and I believe it’s going to blow all the others away. I’m praying for some specific things and believing God to show off!
Teaching Preaching
Currently at our church, I have the opportunity each week to pour into 10 men on the topic of preaching and teaching. These are 10 men that feel called and led to communicate the Gospel more effectively. Some of them will do it from a big stage; others will do it in their workplaces; others will go on and plant churches and possibly preach to many more than I ever will.
I don’t know a lot about preaching. But I’ve had the honor to be doing it for 14 years and have had some of the best communicators in the world pour into me. Some on a personal level and others from a distance. I’m just jacked out of my mind that this many men in our church are stepping forward in this and are hungry to learn and hungry to communicate God’s Word.
My prayer is that we will get to do this class for men every single year and that from this, some will take up the calling to plant churches and we will constantly have different people sharing the Gospel from the Ridge Church stage.
