It’s official! Revolution Church is moving to Camelot Cinemas on September 25, 2011!
This is our 4th move in 2 years! I remember Rick Warren writing about the number of times Saddleback moved in their first 10 years and saying something like ‘The joke was, if you could find us, you could come!’
We don’t want to be confusing, but we do want to be clear: the Church is the people of God meeting for the purpose of God to worship the person of God. It’s not a building.
This is a great move for Revolution! It gives us the space to grow and topnotch facilities to do it in. I am more excited about this location than any other venue we have utilized for Revolution!
Here are the details:
Revolution Church (at Camelot Cinemas)
48 East Antrim Drive – Greenville, SC Service time: 10:30 am
Full adult and children’s worship
We would love to have you join us for a service where our guests are made to feel like family and the atmosphere is casual and engaging. Please visit the website for more details: www.revolutiononline.cc
Several weeks ago, I was preaching through a series at Revolution titled Concealed Weapons dealing with spiritual warfare and our tools to fight against the enemy. One of the weeks was on the topic of fasting and my good friend, accountability partner, and elder at Revolution Church Zach Slagel tackled the topic.
At the conclusion of the service, I challenged our people to join in a 10 or 21 day corporate fast asking God for direction on location and facilities. I was blown away!
I was blown away by the response of the people. It’s easy to get people excited about some things. If you have a building to build or a specific project that results in hungry people getting fed or lost people getting found, you can rally support for that kind of thing with relative ease.
But that was not the case here. We were simply seeking God’s purpose and direction. We wanted to know more fully what His plan for us was. We weren’t asking Him to bless our plan, but rather to reveal His plan so we could jump in with both feet.
The response was somewhat overwhelming. An amazing number of people joined in the fast with the leadership! This is an underutilized spiritual discipline that many fellow Revolutionaries took the opportunity to step into an area of faith development. I am excited to hear the stories of what God showed people during their time of fasting.
I was blown away by the response of God. We asked him to give us a greater glimpse of His plan. We longed to know more fully His purpose for Revolution Church. And He answered.
We are now leasing an amazing space from the Greenville Baptist Association located in the downtown Greenville area. We are now situated in a location that is central to many areas and this is definitely a community we can pour our hearts into and physically display the love of Christ!
There are a handful of times in my walk with God where I have clearly and distinctly heard from Him about a specific situation. There are fewer still where I could see the tangible effects of His handiwork in bringing the situation to bear. This was one of those moments. I can’t recount all the specific details, but this is one that has God’s fingerprints all over it!
I would like to thank so many of you for praying with us in this matter.
This Sunday morning, we will have our first service at the new location and our first morning service ever! If you are reading this and in the area, I would like to personally invite you to come. The details are above and if you click the card you can get directions. I don’t want to pull anyone away from being plugged in at their own church. Sometimes, it’s just encouraging to see what God is up to in other branch locations of The Church!
Everything has its time and season and there is definitely a time when everything in this life comes to an end.
Change rarely comes without some measure of heartache, mainly because we are all creatures of habit and grow attached and cling to the familiar. Change is often complex and very difficult (I did a series on “Change” last year).
With that in mind, I need to inform you that I have resigned from my role as Executive & Worship Pastor at Washington Avenue Church. My prayer is that Washington Avenue Church would continue pursuing the plan God has purposed and designed them to be. We leave behind many wonderful friends and some of the best ministry experiences of my life.
I would like to thank the people of Washington Avenue and specifically Chuck Bridges for the time we shared together. Though we will be laboring in different works, we share a common goal. That goal is that Heaven would be more crowded because of our faithfulness. I encourage you to pray for WAC and its leadership. Great things are ahead!
I would also like to share what’s going on with us right now and how you can pray for us. Tabitha and I are in the middle of an intense season of prayer and refining the next steps God has for us. As most of you know, we have accepted a call to plant a new church and went on a scouting trip to Boston, MA last October. Upon our return, God confirmed that Boston was not our destination.
We do have a very clear sense of what God intends our specific next steps to be and are seeking confirmation of this. Over the next several weeks, I will be posting more updates about what is coming up in our exciting journey. Thank you so much for your prayers and I can’t wait to share these exciting things with you!
Just a quick post to share with the blog audience that I will be headed back to Romania this July for a couple of weeks of missions. Washington Avenue has a strong relationship and an awesome history of ministry with Romania. Chuck has a massive heart for missions and Romania. We are pumped about going back! God did some incredible things while we were there and 49 young people gave their lives to Jesus!
Tabitha and I first visited Romania in October 2007 just as I was coming on staff at WAC. I did several posts and video updates while we were in Romania.
I thought some of you might enjoy seeing the posts (mostly video) we shared from our last time in Romania. If so, click on the link below…the older posts are at the bottom with the newer at the top.
I, like many of you, have almost overdosed on the political minutia that has surrounded this election season that started so early this time around. I have not and am not making any public comments about who you should vote for, only that you should participate in the process and you should seek God in that as you would anything else.
With that said, I am sharing this link to a convocation service held at Liberty University (the school I attend) last Monday. Former US Congressman Bob McEwen spoke to the whole student body and it has been reported to be the best speech of the year.
I just watched it…it’s a 30 minute speech and it is worth your time and awesome!!! I can’t embed the video but here is the full link:
