Can It Get Any Better?

Every week I leave our worship services thinking it can't get any better this side of heaven. And yet, God keeps on blowing me away week after week with His presence! Can it get any better? ABSOLUTELY!

I can't wait to see what will happen this Sunday at EFBC. I'm really excited about my message this week entitled Talkin Bout My Generation. This will be the seventh sermon in our Things Jesus Said series, and it will be taken from Luke 7:31-35. Can't wait to stand up and share God's Word!

Let's come this Sunday believing this worship service will be the best one we've ever experienced. I'm expecting that every week, and sure enough, every service is better than the last one. If February 28th is better than February 21st, then we're going to be flying so high we'll have to look down to see heaven! And what will March 7th look like? I can only imagine!

Keep your fork, Eulaton, because the BEST IS YET TO COME!

Countdown Has Begun

Well, it's Friday and I'm once again counting the minutes until Sunday morning at EFBC. God just keeps on blessing here, and I'm just standing back in awe of what He's doing. I hope you'll plan on being here this Sunday morning, and that you'll come expecting even greater things than we've already experienced!

I'm really excited about my message for Sunday entitled Fear Not. This will be the sixth sermon in our Things Jesus Said series, and I hope it will be a real encouragement for those who hear it. The message will be taken from the words of Jesus in Luke 12:4-7.

Don't forget we're having our I Love My Church Family Banquet Sunday night at 6. Chicken tenders will be provided, but we're asking everyone to please bring side items and desserts. It's going to be a great time of fun and fellowship (not to mention the food). Hope you'll plan on being here!

I can hardly wait to see what God has in store for us this Sunday. Everybody had better hang on to your fork, because the best is yet to come!!!

Pumped For Tomorrow

Hope everyone's survived the great "Snow of 2010" and is ready to gather tomorrow as we come together to worship Jesus. Tomorrow's message will be the fifth in the Things Jesus Said series, and it's entitled Road To Heaven; Highway To Hell. And as you have probably already guessed...I'm pretty pumped about it! Hope you'll plan on being here at EFBC in the morning!

Don't forget we're having our annual I Love My Church Family Banquet tomorrow night at 6 p.m. This is always a great time of fellowship and fun. Some of our men are going to be frying up some chicken tenders, but we need our church folks to bring side items and desserts (and you can bring a main course, as well...if you really want to).

Looking forward to seeing everybody in the morning. Come ready to worship! Come expecting God to show up! And come knowing that THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

Do Numbers Matter?

As I'm writing this, I'm still celebrating our most recent Wednesday night service that saw a record 87 children and youth here, not counting all of the adults. But even better was what happened afterwards: I was able to share the plan of salvation with three young ladies and they all trusted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. We're seeing that kind of thing happen more and more often here at EFBC; and that, my friends, is what it's all about.

I recently received an anonymous comment from a person who said that they'd just happened upon my blog while surfing the Internet. It was quite obvious that this person had some different beliefs than we do, but they seemed to genuinely be a follower of Christ. In the comment, several accusations were made. This person wrote that "you care more for numbers than for souls" and that I am only interested in "growing a larger congregation."

So here's the question: Do numbers matter to God? I believe the answer is unmistakably "YES!" Read the Gospels and take notice of how many times you see the writers saying something to the effect of, "large crowds were following Jesus." Did anybody accuse Christ of being "just about the numbers?" I don't think so.

Read Acts 2 where 3000 people were saved and baptized. Did you ever think about the fact that somebody had to count all of those people and God felt it was important enough to include that number in the Scriptures? Throughout the book of Acts, Luke is continually mentioning how the church was growing and the Lord was adding to their numbers.

After the first deacons were called in Acts 6, the Bible actually tells us that the number of disciples began to multiply. Funny how the Bible mentions adding and multiplying (two words that are inherently linked to numbers), yet some people still believe that God doesn't care about numbers.

To the people who would say, "You're more concerned with numbers than with souls," I would respond by saying, "God cares about numbers and I care about numbers because every number represents a soul." And the numbers I am most concerned about are the untold numbers in our community who don't know Jesus.

So if you were wondering if I'm going to apologize for celebrating the numbers we've been having, the answer to that would be a gigantic "NO!" I'll always rejoice as our numbers grow. And I'll especially rejoice every time another soul is saved. Jesus didn't give us the Great Commission for nothing. Numbers matter to God, and they should matter to us, as well.