4 May 2007
The now and the not yet
Wow! It’s been more than 20 years since I went to Disney World.
What’s changed most?
The CROWDS!
They were bad then.
Now they’re like something from a sci-fi/horror flik, “Invasion of the Clones” or something. People were everywhere!
Wall to wall people!
I thought I liked crowds. I was even going to put a GINORMOUS (<— It’s a word now, baby!!) shot of the multitudes up on this blog and call it, “A Record Week at Southbrook!”
Cinderella’s castle in the background might have given my secret away though.
But wouldn’t it be cool if multitudes gathered of THAT size to worship the Lord and hear a message all about JESUS?!
You don’t see that in America, but it happens in South America and South Korea and South Africa.
What gives? I mean this is the South, and that does seem to be the common thread.
Actually, the common thread is big faith in a GINORMOUSLY Big God!
I think we’re going to see this in the USA in my lifetime. I think it might even start with churches like Southbrook.
Just dreaming again.
But last time I checked I read that God liked doing things even beyond those man sized dreams.
Don’t believe me? Look up Ephesians 3:20 sometimes.
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Calculatorgames says:
Mark & Cindy Cianciosa says:
Rob … you keep dreaming … I can still remember when we were setting up the Church in the foyer at Providence High … it was small then. No way I ever thought we could see 150 people come to the LORD in one weekend … now I am praying for one weekend where we see 1000 come to the LORD.
Michael says:
Of course, wouldn’t it be great if we had a weekend where the members of the church together just invited 1,000 people to come? Praying is a good thing to do, but Joyce Meyer’s reminded me this week that I need to stop praying for what God says He will do and start doing what God calls us to do. Joyce was talking about blessing others with financial and material blessings. But what greater blessing than giving someone, or 1,000 someones, to invitation to hear Christ preached in a real and life changing way.
I invited a family of six. I am not sure they will come, but if each member and regular attendee invited just two people and half of them came we would not have room to contain the masses. What a terrible problem for God to have to deal with! Okay, so we would not have the seats, the parking, room in child care. We would probably have to order more New Believer Bibles and so on. We would have to step up our small groups and grow in our faith to serve these new Christ-followers.
Wait a minute. This sounds like the Day of Pentecost. Did Christ promise that that day would be small potatoes if we had faith and put Him first?
Hello and hope you are having a great trip. I don’t know if this will make you feel any better but when I took pictures of the Easter service as well as the Baptism, my parents (who are in NY) could not get over how many people were there…so I think you are making progress…the crowds at Southbrook are bigger than I have ever seen in NY…..so we are definately a work in progress!!