Encounter 10 19 05 / Recap
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Hey hey hey, Encounter was great tonight. I really had a blast. Things are definitely starting to click. I know it seems like I'm saying that every week, but each Wednesday that goes by has been better than the previous. And that's cool. And I'm excited. We had a great group of kids out tonight. A lot of new faces, and thats really what I'm so excited about. I feel like our core group of kids is really stepping it up and making an effort to go out during the week and BRING their friends back to Encounter. It's great. I'm not even sure how many first time guests we had tonight, but I would say it was at least 10. Continuing the Raising the Bar series, this weeks topic was purity in our thought lives. Something that even I need to be reminded of from time to time. Tonight was the 3rd week w/ me speaking from the stage rather than down on the floor and I'm definitely getting more comfortable with that. At first it was real weird, but now I think it's working better, especially since the place is really filling up. Here are my message notes from tonight. I've had the series topics laid out for about a month. So I've known for a while that tonight was going to be purity in your thought life. Today before I started really getting into nailing down my outline I started flipping through every little teenager's black book on sex and dating by Blaine Bartel. I found a section entitled 3 Ways To Guard Your Thought Life. I was like "dude". So three of my 4 points tonight were directly from this book. What a great resource. I highly recommend his little black book series to anyone in youth ministry. Also, something new we did this week was record the message! So if you want to hear it again, or weren't there this week, check it out. You can download it by clicking the link is at the bottom of this post. Just a little FYI for everyone ... We're going to be launching the new CGEN Café on November 9. Everyone thats working on this is really excited. We're going to have a lot of cool stuff. I don't want to give it all away just yet, but I'll be letting more out as it develops. So stay tuned on that ... One thing I'm hoping the new CGEN Café will do is get people there a bit earlier. When we started tonight we had about 15 kids there. I was starting to freak out a bit, wondering if anyone was coming this week. By the time we finished worship the place was almost packed out. I'm definitely going to be tweaking somethings out the next few weeks to try and solve this. Anyway, like I said, I had a really great time tonight. I really is an honor to be able to be doing this. I having the time of my life. I can't wait until next week. I hope to see you all again soon. It's going to be great. Total attendance: 85+ + Link to message notes + Link to message audio
posted by MATTHEW JOHN BELL @ 10/20/2005 02:04:00 AM,
2 Comments:
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At 10/20/2005 07:18:00 PM,
Staci said...
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"It's always awesome when it's not morbid death going around! Who would agree? Show of hands....Praise Him!"
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At 10/24/2005 03:22:00 PM,
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It's refreshing to hear someone finally talk about something that the youth here can truly relate to. And you do not even leave it there.... you help them learn how to apply it to their lives. Thank you for not bringing words of "you are such a horrible sinner" but words of " God loves you no matter what and here is what the word says about your life and how to handle things that come your way." You are a breath of fresh air and I encourage you to continue on and to continue to hear God and what he wants you to say.