Something About Sundays - Steve Penny

I read this blog post earlier in the week from Steve Penny.

I am really enjoying his writing recently.

Here it goes......

Some things happen on Sundays that don’t take place any other day of the week.

I usually receive messages from friends who are also up very early preparing for a great day in church. I then wait to hear the sounds of the musicians starting to set up down in our auditorium.

And then soon the masses begin to arrive and the sounds of many people in one place can be heard. Church then begins and the praise and worship starts to lift and many people in one place now become one people with one heart.

I love preaching. I love what it does in people’s lives. God’s word changes us as we receive it in faith.

And then it is over and we leave as one people with one purpose for another week.

Without church on a weekend our weeks would not have a defining point. For me church is the beginning and launching pad for another week of great exploits. I love being all together in one place and waiting for the God moment to happen. There always is a God moment when His people gather. You just have to be looking for it.

Can’t wait for next Sunday for another God moment with the greatest people on earth.

Bring it on.

I agree!

What do you think about Sundays?

My Name is Andrew Staggs and I Love the Church!

"My Name is Andrew Staggs and I Love the Church!"

I am coming out of the closet... again!!

And I am inspired by building healthy churches and launching new churches.

That's why verses like these from Acts catch my attention.....

Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the brothers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing."

Acts 15:36 (NIV)

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

Acts 15:41 (NIV)

4 As they travelled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.

5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.

Acts 16:4-5 (NIV)

Ac 22 strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. "We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God," they said.

23 Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

Acts 14:22-23 (NIV)

That is why I am moved when I watch media clips like this one about church planting.

Click here and be inspired!

I showed this clip last night as part of my BIG Wednesday message.

This clip was recently done by Australian Christian Churches and given to us at the last ACC National Conference.