Monday Morning Mind Dump…

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  • I haven’t done a mind dump in a while and felt like today was a good day for it.
  • I’ve been blogging a lot less lately because of the transition that our church is a part of.
  • Someone asked me recently if joining two churches together was harder than church planting.
  • I’m not sure which one is harder, but they both take a lot of work.
  • What has been amazing to me, though, is how seamless it has been.
  • Now, it has been hard, emotional, humbling, and everything in between.
  • Daily I am reminded how God has gone before us and paved the way for this.
  • I was reminded again and again yesterday when I got to kick off our brand new series How Could We Not? on the east campus.
  • Everyone I talked to gets the vision of multi-site and is excited about it.
  • It was stretching for me to teach three times in a row yesterday, but great practice for Christmas Eve.
  • I slept almost 10 hours last night!
  • If you want to watch yesterday’s message, it will be posted here.
  • I love getting to work with the East campus of Pantano but also being able to team up with Glen Elliott, our lead pastor.
  • He taught at the Southeast campus yesterday and did an awesome job.
  • There are so many things about this step and transition that I am excited about, but one of the biggest ones is happening in 3 weeks to serve our city.
  • Another reason I see God’s hand in this is how well the people of Revolution have processed this.
  • There have been a ton of great questions and feedback.
  • The responses have run the gamut of uncertainty to all-out excitement.
  • But almost everyone has said, “We’re here, we’re in, we’re praying, and we’ll see what this is going to be like.”
  • I couldn’t ask for anything more.
  • We had someone come from the East campus yesterday to the Southeast campus for the first time, and they serve on they served on their first day!
  • Three books that I’m reading right now that are stretching me: Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, Stillness Is the Key, and What Does Your Soul Love?: Eight Questions That Reveal God’s Work in You. 
  • One of my favorite parts of this multi-site transition has been the format of our teaching team and how we are putting together sermons and series with multiple teachers and working on them together.
  • That is a longer blog post, but it has been exciting to watch it come together.
  • Not only does it strengthen the teaching in our church, but is also still gives each communicator their unique voice and keeps the unity of our church.
  • Introduced our kids to That Thing You Do! last night.
  • Such a classic.
  • One thing I love about the end of October is that it is finally cooling off!

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