Filed under: All things Church | Tags: christmas preaching, church, exciting, religion, series, wonderland
I can’t wait to dig into this series…starting December 2nd…snow machines, flashlights, and other fine goodies 
Filed under: All things Church, All things Leadership | Tags: church, offend, relevant church, religion, religious, selling out
Wow…I get this question all the time. We are seeing churches completely sell out to becoming culturally relevant…while…at the same time not compromising the Word. I understand that doing church like this offends some folks, but I have found that most people it offends…NEED to be offended…because they are more interested in preserving self righteousness than they are about reaching people. Paul addressed this issue here.
So, needless to say, I am pretty passionate about this issue so :)…I have a few thoughts about this….
1. We can be relevant and reach people for Jesus Christ. It is possible to be creative without selling out what makes the Word powerful.
2. Why does the church insist on taking the most wonderful book ever and the most exciting news ever and make it the most boring thing that you could ever imagine? I’m talking absolutely want to pull your hair out boring!
3. Jesus was the most creative communicator that we have ever seen. He would use the “language of the day” to communicate truths. I think we all agree that He is worth patterning our ministries after…right?
4. If, you really look at the Gospels all of them were written to different groups of people for different types of purposes. They were written so that those who read them could grasp the word as it applies to them.
We need to learn as a church that it is our job to present the Gospel with power, life, love, and creativity…and it’s God’s job to present Himself to people that really need it.
Filed under: All things Family
This was taken at Kevin and Dawn’s wedding. She is something wonderful.
Filed under: My thoughts on current affairs
When I started writing on my blog, to be honest, I thought it would only have traffic from a few folks. (Shows you my lvl of faith). But in the past seven weeks, I have had an overwhelming response to my blog…so it’s time to get things a little more professional.
My new blog address is www.michaelkyker.com. You can still access through the church website as well.
Plan, simple, and easy…by the way keep the hits coming
Filed under: All things Church
One word…rocking!
- What a great weekend. We seriously gained some ground this week. It was really really good.
- Best Bye series started out great. I was really excited how it all came together.
- I knew praise and worship was going to be good this weekend when I walked out of staff meeting Thursday night and everyone was laying face down worshipping. I am so proud of our team and its leaders.
- I am also proud of our frontline teams. Man they are doing such a great job! Thank you.
- We ordered our snow machine…More details on that later.
- The series for December is Wonderland! I can’t wait it’s going to be great.
- 4 people gave their heart to the Lord!
- I absolutely almost cried when I saw the Thanksgiving Moment video. That was hilarious.
- We are working on something HUGE! I can’t hand out much details but we are working on something that is so God it’s not even funny.
- the Refuge is laying some strong foundation….great seeing what God is doing there.
- We are planning a huge event to honor our volunteers. It is going to be over the top.
- The past two months we have had record giving. It has been amazing to see how people have really grabbed a hold of the vision and are running with it. Thanks for breaking the bank!
- Elevation should reveal what their stewardship pledges were today. Can’t wait.
- Our flashlights should be in soon…More details to come.
- I forgot to do the college football update…and it’s funny because I had several people remind me about it.
- My boys are one win away from the SEC championship game. It’s going to be a big weekend coming up. Go VOLS!
