Amazed At What God Is Doing

Last week I had the distinct pleasure of spending 3 days in Oklahoma City with the entire LifeChurch.tv staff and several other LC.tv Network church pastors like myself. Simply put, it was an amazing time for me personally and a time that I believe we will look back and see as another great turning point in the history of Life Church Franklin.

 

Recently, LifeChurch.tv was named the 2^nd largest church in America. It’s really amazing, but more importantly it’s a representation of lives. It is lives that have been encouraged, renewed and changed.

 

As I spent some time with the LC.tv staff I was just amazed at how interested they were in what was happening here in Franklin, North Carolina at LCF. They asked all kinds of questions and were so supportive and excited for what God has done.

 

Each time one of them would say something or express amazement I kind of laughed to myself. I kept thinking, “You guys have 26,000 people coming to 13 campus and we have 300 people… total! Why are you amazed?”. But, it struck me the last day; this is the same thing I do when I hear of a new church plant that is thriving or a church that is coming back to life after slowing dying. I am amazed. It doesn’t matter the context of how big or small it seems to us, we should all stand in amazement and gratitude when God moves in a great way. There’s no jealousy or flippant attitude that it’s just luck. This is God at work in His church for His glory.

 

So, just as I stand amazed at what God is doing at LifeChurch.tv and Life Church Franklin, I am in amazement at his faithfulness to my friend planting a church this month in north Georgia. I am in amazement because God doesn’t work on our scale of big and small and I won’t either anymore.  

 

Patrick