Get Your Strategy On
Here’s the "box score" for this past weekend at Granger Community Church.
Music: "All Things New" by Steven Curtis Chapman
Message: "Nu Strategies for Growth: God’s Gym" — Rob Wegner, Pastor of Life Development, opened this new series by highlighting the transformation we go through as new believers, but also talked about our responsibility to continue to "work out" our salvation (Phil. 2:12-13). Rob included an overview of some of the spiritual habits we can use as we train ourselves to be more like Christ while remaining uniquely ourselves as God designed us.
Service Highlights: Rob talked about the difference between training and trying. To illustrate the importance of training, one of our volunteers jumped his motorcycle onto the platform in the middle of the message. It was pretty impressive–something I certainly wouldn’t recommend trying at home. Rob used that to make the point that we need to train by arranging our lives around those activities that enable us to do what we can’t now do by direct effort.
Stats: 4,668 total attendance (3,602 adults + 1,066 kids); 9.1% increase from the same weekend last year
Percentage of weekend attendance by service:
Final Notes: Each week we offer some next steps out of our weekend services to encourage people to continue to process what they are experiencing in the services. We create both a Bible reading plan and a discussion guide for people to use in their daily time with God and in their group conversations. You can find samples of those resources on GCCwired.com.
Tony Morgan is a pastor and the Chief Strategic Officer at NewSpring Church where he develops creative solutions for communications, technology and NewSpring Ministries--the church's ministry that equips other church leaders.
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Bryson Vogeltanz
August 24th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
i’m curious to know if you asked North Point to borrow the “Nu Me” brand for your series? I love the look and feel of it. i just thought it was interesting that the graphics are the same, but could not tell if the messages were the same too?
Tony Morgan
August 25th, 2005 at 8:24 am
The series concept came from North Point, but the messages are not the same. You can purchase the North Point series here.