Sermon Recap - Fulfilling the Joshua Challenge

I'm praying that 2011 is going to be a good year for us church. These are the slides from Sunday's message. If you missed it...then here you go. Please read the whole thing, all the way to the end.

The basic idea of these verses is that God calls his people to commit. We need to be challenged to step up our commitment b/c we drift. Gravity pulls us away from God and the church.

253 total people represents those who are involved to some extent (not those who fall into inactive status)

The smart people who do research on church growth tell us that 80% of seating capacity is as much as a church can seat on a recurring basis. For a one-time event (like Easter) we can seat over capacity, but we won't sit shoulder-to-shoulder on a weekly basis. We like our space.

Wow.

Our 2010 average was almost 100 below our the number of our members and attendees. This is unacceptable to me. It should be unacceptable to every one of us.

Commit - we are literally asking you not to miss this year (vacations excepted) - on Sunday mornings don't be on the lake, in the bed, on the golf course, out in the woods hunting, etc...
Create - we want to have a seating problem immediately

Engage - sing with us, open the Bible, serve in ministries with us, etc.
Expect - so often we don't even expect that God will show up and work...let's start expecting

MOST IMPORTANTLY - Take this challenge and pass it on to 5 other people. We want everybody to challenge 5 other people to commit, create, engage, expect.