Momentum

Great word to describe this morning's service. Great word to describe the beginning of OLC (Oak Leaf Church). God is good. God uses little people to do big things. I sensed momentum. You could feel it. Of course, our largest crowd since we started 11 weeks ago may have something to do with it - close to 300.

Side note: Churches don't have to apologize for talking about numbers. Well, at least churches with the right motivation do not. I used to think...and even recently...that I always had to give a disclaimer before I mentioned how many people came to our new church. Something along the lines of, "Well, I know it's not about numbers...but...we had..." I'm going to stop doing that. If our hearts are right and our motivation is for the unchurched to come and experience the grace and goodness of God, I'm going to be ecstatic when 300+ people show up to a movie theatre for church on Sunday morning! Growth is not evil. For us, it's a sign that our people are doing what we ask them to do -- reach out, invite a friend, invest in other's lives. That's powerful. That'll preach.

So yeah, back to this momentum thing. You could just sense it. A moving forward. A pressing on. Did everything run flawless? Of course not. But people are investing in this thing called church at the movies. They are sacrificing time. They are putting others above themselves and growing spiritually in the process. Momentum is motivating. Makes me want to devote even more thought, more energy, more patience, more love, more creativity into everything we do. As we learned today, God is a big God. Incomprehensible. He's a great God. And when He decides to move...and there's a momentum, a surge...great things are accomplished by His people - for His Kingdom.