Here Goes by Roy Rhodes
Well, here goes. I'm not sure I fit anymore. Here's what our Sunday morning looks like in both services on both campuses.
There's not a necktie to be found. We are a mix of every color, age, educational background, and church history. Our music is contemporary but intentionally genuine and Christocentric. We dim the lights and use specialty lighting and backgrounds that mimic stained glass of old.
Every service includes a time in the middle where we stop, call the
elders forward, anoint with oil and pray for needs. I preach an
uncompromising, word-filled message that always ends with a full altar,
repentance, salvation, Holy Spirit baptism and healing.
On Sunday night we have 50-60 who come to prayer and it's anything but quiet as we cry out for revival and a move of God in our region. Once again the lights are dim and new styles of music play.
Sometimes people come to prayer and church in shorts and end up at the altars interceding for others. We'll try anything that isn't forbidden in scriptures to present a living, powerful Jesus to the world.
We believe that there is more and that there is no New Testament salvation that does not include the infilling power of the Holy Ghost.
So, because we use lighting (made by God who dwells in a myriad of colors and stolen by Satan and the world) and contemporary music and instruments (which also belong to God) are we somehow compromising?
God is moving powerfully at our church--and we are unashamedly contemporary and Pentecostal.
On Sunday night we have 50-60 who come to prayer and it's anything but quiet as we cry out for revival and a move of God in our region. Once again the lights are dim and new styles of music play.
Sometimes people come to prayer and church in shorts and end up at the altars interceding for others. We'll try anything that isn't forbidden in scriptures to present a living, powerful Jesus to the world.
We believe that there is more and that there is no New Testament salvation that does not include the infilling power of the Holy Ghost.
So, because we use lighting (made by God who dwells in a myriad of colors and stolen by Satan and the world) and contemporary music and instruments (which also belong to God) are we somehow compromising?
God is moving powerfully at our church--and we are unashamedly contemporary and Pentecostal.
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