Revolution Recap
We had a good night last night at Revolution. I am refusing to accept the “post spring break” slump and am determined to head into summer full-steam ahead. Last night was week three of All In where we talked about a full house. We sat out as many chairs as we could fit in our student building and talked about what it would take to fill every chair. I don’t want to have Revolution be a ‘Full House’ so that I can build my own fame, or look better as a student pastor, I want us to fill that place because God wants to draw people to Himself. So, really last night was the ‘how’. We looked at how we get from a student ministry of 75 to 200+. The first thing is God. If we are going to have a student ministry of 200 in a town of 1800 it’ll HAVE to be a God thing. The crazy thing is, God wants us to grow that much because He desires people to come to Himself. For some reason, there’s a myth in the church world that if things are getting big; are growing, then God isn’t in it. Really? How do you explain half of the book of Acts? How do you explain:
3,000 were added to the 120 disciples ~ Acts 2:37-41
“The Lord added daily” – Acts 2:42
“The number came to be about 5,000″ ~ Acts 4:2
“Believers were increasingly added” ~ Acts 5:12-14
“The number of disciples was multiplying” ~ Acts 5:42-6:1
“The number of disciples multiplied” ~ Acts 6:7
“Churches were multiplied” ~ Acts 8:1-4
“A great number believed” ~ Acts 11:20-21
“A great many people were added to the Lord” ~ Acts 11:24
“As many as had been appointed, believed” ~ Acts 13:48
“Made many disciples” ~ Acts 14:21-23
“Chuches increased in number” ~ Acts 16:5
“Many [Corinthians] believed” ~ Acts 18:8
“All who dwelt in Asia heard the Word” ~ Acts 19:10
“Tens of thousands” ~ Acts 21:20
And who says that God only wanted this to happen once? That’s junk.
So if God wants to fill our student buildings and our churches, what’s the hold up?
Christians. We’ve gotten too comfortable and made being a christian more about the music we listen to, or the sticker we put on our car, or even the mints we freshen our breath with (testamints….jeesh) when Jesus wants us to be about taking up our cross daily and investing in and inviting other people to a relationship with Christ or to church. At the end of the night, we had a time where we spread everyone out and had them ask God to give them their “one”, someone they will not stop investing and inviting until they come to know Jesus. When the students had prayed for their ‘one,’ they came and wrote their names on playing cards we had laying out at the front of the stage and prayed God would give them opportunities to invite them to Revolution next week as we present the gospel in a very clear, simple, creative, and relevant way. It should be an incredible night!
I told our kids that this was a tough message for me to prepare for because everytime I got to the ‘one’ part of my preparation, God would just drill me with “who’s your one?” and I really couldn’t answer Him. As a minister, I’m surrounded by Christians every day I go to work, so I decided that my ‘one’ would be the good people who work at the Starbucks in Lowell. So what I’ve started doing is leaving the office a little early a few days a week, go to starbucks, feed my caffeine addiction, and begin to invest in the people there. Here’s what’s cool:
They are beginning to remember my name without me telling them.
Go out and invest and invite!!!
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