I’m in North Carolina right now speaking and learning at a great conference. With a big, young family like mine (5 kids under the age of 10) and a brand new church, I don’t leave town much and when I do, I almost always bring the entire King Team (or cute family name…you need one too) with me.
Tomorrow our church is adding a second service and beginning a life changing series.
So – have I set the scene. I’m out of state. My wife is holding down the fort. Our church is growing and…
DRAMA BREAKS OUT!
I got a text from my wife that something had gone wrong with the church. Of course I was alarmed so I wrote her back and asked her what it was.
She said the doors to our Sunday morning location were CHAINED SHUT – with a sweet note from a stranger named Pam stating that they would be shut all weekend. Uhhhh -no. We share that building with a ton of other tenants and all of us were shut out.
That’s not going to work. But here’s the thing. When you are pushing and doing the work of God – drama will ALWAYS break out. The unexpected is bound to happen.
Here’s what we did.
We prayed. We asked you to pray.
We also started planning on cutting the chains if we had to as a last resort. We thought this might be slightly illegal, but we’d deal with that later. But before we had to cut the chains, something that smells like Divine Intervention happened and someone came and unlocked them without us even prompting them.
Who in the world knows what happened and why? I don’t even care. I just wanted to tell you to pray and plan on acting when drama breaks out!
I can’t wait to preach tomorrow!
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Reading this made me think of Acts 11, "The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord." Acts 11:21.
Press on!
Awesome. Celebrating with you guys and praying for some amazing life-change from the message God shares through you.
Awesome to hear what the final result was…I saw the Tweet and prayed, but never saw the end result! Grace and Peace…