At Church this morning, we had a piped in guest Pastor, Steven Furtick, talking about being audacious for God. He planted Elevation Church in Matthews NC in 2005. Yes, this is his picture. He looks almost normal here, except for the crazy eye. In the message, his skin looked purple and he had a white jacket on. It was kinda creepy. But the message was awesome.
Here is a little of the story of Elevation from their website:
"In the winter of 2004, God started assembling a group of families around Pastor Furtick that would sell their homes, move their families, and invest their lives into the start of Elevation. After sensing that God had selected Charlotte as the city, the eight families put the "for sale" signs in their front yards in February of 2005.
From February to September of 2005, the team pressed into God for what His vision was for Elevation. Following hammering out the bedrock principles of the purpose statement, core values and ministry strategy, Pastor Furtick sensed it was time to make the jump and start meeting in Charlotte. On September 11th, 2005, the core team had its first informational meeting in the Community Center in the town of Matthews. That night a small group of people gathered to hear more about Elevation Church. Those "information meetings" continued through the end of January when it became clear that it was time to make the shift to Sunday mornings.
A committed team of 60 people put on the first Sunday morning worship experience February 5th 2006, and watched 121 people attend that first Sunday. Just two short years later Elevation Church is now meeting in two high schools and weekly attendance has topped 4,000. Through God's favor and a relentless pursuit of the vision we have watched over 1,300 people profess faith in Jesus Christ during our second year of ministry."
Elevation is a Church that gets it, in terms of what it means and and what it takes to reach people for Jesus, not just building a church for the sake of having a large Church.
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