Box Score for August 5, 2007
Here’s the "box score" for this Sunday at NewSpring Church.
Music: "Cochise" by Audioslave; Check out the rest of the setlist on Lee’s blog
Message: "Hell No!" — Perry Noble,
Senior Pastor, addressed the doctrine of Hell on Sunday. Teaching from Luke 16:19-31, he explained that there are three facts that we all need to deal with: (1) Eternity is real, (2) Hell is real, and (3) Hell is not necessary.
Service Highlights: By far, the biggest highlight of the weekend was seeing 110 people receive Christ. Aside from that, there were a number of elements in Sunday’s service that were very compelling including Cochise and the man-on-the-street interviews that were shared as the band played ACDC’s "Hells Bells." (Okay…the fire was pretty cool as well.)
Stats: 7,447 total attendance; 2,108 person increase (39.5%) from the same weekend last year
Final Notes: The Morgan family switched to the 4:15 service time this weekend. We weren’t the only folks that made that jump. Both evening crowds went way up in attendance which creates more room for new people in the morning services. By the way, I think the evening services are a lot rowdier than the morning services. Don’t know why. Probably says something about the folks that sleep in on Sunday morning…
Hi Tony, hope all is well…love your blog, struggle with this “hell” concept. I believe hell exist and is real (look around the world), but I also know that God’s will is that ALL be saved…so that means that His will, will not be done if in “fact” an enternal hell does exist….It’s hard to believe that His will, will not be done?
very cool to see the box scores (sorry, occasional reader, didn’t catch when you started doing this) — will we see other stats soon like RBI, HR, hits, and errors? :)
loved the message ‘Hell No!’ used it in a post – http://yavillage.com/heat-wave/. was able to use our current heat wave as a intro :) keep up the good work!