Shane Sanchez
I can't begin to tell you how freaking stoked I am for the Sunday Night Experience this weekend. It is going to be an incredible event for our entire church.
It definitely is going to be a new feeling to have our youth service on Sunday nights but I can't wait to ride the roller coaster that is SNE.
It will be our first DEVOyouthCHURCH service of 2009 and we will be doing it big! Everything is going to be fresh, new, and (*cough* *cough*) revamped. Pastor Sam is going to challenge students with a hard hitting message series in January. We will have all new media and service structures. It will be a great time for the ministry.
If you are reading this and wondering how I already know it is going to be amazing, it's because I do. I have complete confidence that God will bless the efforts. My rational for this is that we are not doing any of this for our own glory. Everything that DEVO will roll out in '09 is for God. He is the one we will see glorified by the videos, events, services, and outreach of DEVOyouthCHURCH. Pastor Sam has been anointed by God to speak to the students of Mesa First and I'm confident God is going to use him big time. I feel blessed to be a part of this ministry and can't wait to be a part of DEVO during SNE in 2009.
Get Stoked,
Shane
Shane Sanchez
Ok, ok, I'm not sharing my political values with the world by titling this post "change". Instead I want to talk about something most people have an extreme phobia of. This morning at my home church our lead pastor announced one of the most exciting ideas at our church since we stopped using hymnals. Now don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with singing songs that our Pilgrim ancestors used to sing but there is something very wrong when a church gets comfortable. That is a scary place to be as a follower of Christ. Today our pastor announced that we would be eliminating our Wednesday night events and instead having our Sunday Night Experience. Everything that we offer on a Wednesday night and much, much more will be offered during SNE starting in January. Now before you curse us and tell your friends that we must not be Pentecostal, this came just as much as a shock to me the first time I heard it. Then I began to think and came to the conclusion that this is brilliant. This is what our church has needed for a long time. A shake up isn't always a bad thing. Changes are a measure of just how far we have sunk into the La-Z-Boy we label as "Christianity". Shouldn't we want to shake things up from time to time? Isn't that what Christ sole purpose was: to change the destiny of our lives by saving us from an eternal death? So, next time, before you decide to lose taste in something that has "changed", maybe you need to check how long you have been staying in the same place while everyone around you has been moving forward. We must be people that strive to not only experience life change, but change the lives of people around us!What are some changes that you marked off as "pointless" too quickly?
Live Changed,
Shane
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