Sunday Night Reflections

A Few Thoughts from an Amazing Day...

• Worshiped with church family at Port Orange Christian Church today! This is a church that doing some great things for the Kingdom. 
• Preached 3 times, once on Saturday evening and twice on Sunday - I thought I would be tired, but I was energized by the day.
• The church had 6 additions this week. That was exciting.
• Worship team did an excellent job today, Sherry and her team did a wonderful job leading people in worship.
• What was really thrilling today was to know the pastoral staff are all alums from  FCC and they are all doing a great job, Matt you are doing a great job assembling a team!
• I cannot say enough about the Port Orange CC Missions Team, their generosity is incredible.
• This weekend is our Elder's Leaders Conference at FCC, Looking forward to challenging messages as well as practical suggestions on how develop leaders for the churches in Florida.
• After traveling for FCC for 18 months I am able to make the following observation; Healthy churches are led by ministers and elders who have a healthy relationship. You can survive a poor location, limited resources and poor facilities, but you cannot thrive if the church does not have a healthy relationship between the minister and the elders. 
• Did you notice how Rocky Top was not played much in the 4th Quarter of Saturday evening's game? 
• 1/5 of the semester is over at FCC, I hope the students are aware of how fast a semester can go by!
• Watching Dolphins/Raiders game today, I hope the Dolphins are not giving us false hope.
• Something to Chew on; You do not need to solve everyone's problems, but we all need to bear one another's burdens. ~ Mark Batterson