If you weren’t at NewSpring today, you missed an amazing service. Among other things…

• We gave a house to a single mom and her son.
• We gave a wheelchair-accessible van to a single mom. She’s caring for her adult son who has a disability.
• Perry used these stories to present the Gospel and invite people to accept Christ.
• Will created a great video to accompany the song “God of this City” to highlight the missions/ministry vision of NewSpring.
• There were women weeping everywhere.

We’ll try to get you some video highlights in the coming days. I’m so glad I get to serve in a ministry committed to seeing life change through Jesus Christ. Amazing!

Yesterday, Perry talked about how we need to fully surrender everything to God. Here are some of my favorite lines from his message:

• “When the Gospel takes root in someone’s life, everything changes.”
• “A 95% commitment to Christ is 5% too short.”
• “God doesn’t want anything from you. He wants everything.”
• “If God loved us based on our performance, everyone in this room would be totally screwed.”
• “God will forgive us for our past sins, but he will always deal with our current sins.”
• “We will never understand what he expects until we discover who he is.”
• “Until we understand what he expects, we’ll never give him our very best.”
• Referring to Malachi 1:10: “This is where the fertilizer hits the fan…if you know what I mean.”
• “If your offering means nothing to you, why do we expect it would mean anything to God.”

I’m going to be interviewing Howard Frist (Greenville Campus) and Michael Brown (Florence Campus) about NewSpring’s multi-site strategy at 11:00 a.m. this morning. To watch the interview and join the conversation visit my live broadcast on Mogulus.

Today was the final week of “The Man Series” at NewSpring. Here are some of my favorite lines from Perry’s message:

• “I’ve got an attitude this morning.”
• “What you fear controls you.”
• “A good snake is a dead snake.”
• “We can’t be a man of God until we know the Word of God.”
• “How we handle our money is a direct reflection of what we think about God.”
• “The only reason we think we’re not rich is because we know someone who has more.”
• “Everything we have is a gift from God. All your junk is not your junk.”
• “It’s easy to see greed in other people. It’s hard to see it in our own lives.”

Perry on megachurches: “I don’t think what we are seeing here is a new thing, I think it is an old thing that God is allowing to come back into focus.”

Check out the rest of his interview on WYFF Channel 4 out of Greenville. There’s a link to the video on the right sidebar.