For the last several weeks, our church has been looking at the principles of spiritual growth that Jesus modeled for us during His earthly ministry in a message series called, "God Gives Growth."
This series was the foundation for and the introduction to "E3", the process our leadership team has developed to help our church grow in Christ.
Here's the path we walked to get there...
1. God created us to grow in steps.
2. These steps are environments that God specifically creates to facilitate our growth.
3. Jesus showed us what these environments are during His earthly ministry.
4. The 1st environment is the crowd... in this 1st step, people ENCOUNTER Jesus.
5. The 2nd environment is the 12... in this 2nd step, people EXPERIENCE Jesus.
6. The 3rd environment is the sent... in this 3rd step, people EMULATE Jesus.
7. Our process is E3: Encounter | Experience | Emulate
It took 6 weeks, of course, to build up to this final message & the anticipation was tremendous... There have been times when I could "feel it" in the congregation!
But here's the odd thing: the "Oh... Wow!" moment that everyone seemed to be anticipating came and went with almost no fanfare... Almost no notice, in fact. It was as though we got to the great big climax & it turned out to be... well... anti-climactic!
No, really... The great big moment that we've pushed so hard for did not happen! It kinda bombed, really.
And I couldn't be happier!!!
In my next post, I'll tell you why!
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