Incredible End to Incredible Year

Just wanted to briefly talk about the night we had last week at The Christmas Extravaganza last week.  The Student Ministry staff and team members were praying for over 300 students to enter into the doors for the night.  We have averaged around 230 for the year and thought 300 would be a great goal to shoot for during the service.

We had 349!!

I knew people were going to come to Christ during the night.  I go into a message with that expectation every time I get up to preach.  But the thought hit me while Greg and Lisa were playing "O Come Let Us Adore Him," that this whole night could be about ONE person coming to Christ.  What a beautiful thing God would ordain, that an entire night be dedicated to one special person to change their life for eternity.  Because each one is eternally valuable to God... so much so that His blood would have spilt for that one person alone.  So I prayed for just one person to respond to the grace of Jesus Christ.

And 13 came to faith in Him!!

In short, God takes expectations and blows them out of the water.  We should come to expect it from a big God to do HUGE things, almost to a point that it should become mundane.  But time after time, I find myself placing limitations/expectations on God, and time after time, He shatters them.  In the hands of God, everything is truly possible.

I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas, be sure to come and enjoy the Christmas Eve services at The Cove, invite your friends, it's going to be another incredible, eternity-shattering week. 

No CSM until January 12th when we will kick off a series called Unlikely, and we will be talking through the life of Moses.  You won't want to miss it!!!  Let's take 349 and see how God blows that number up in 2011!!