developing lifestyle worshipers

March has been an incredible month for North Side as we have gone through the series, “Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?”

Last night in my C-Group, we got real honest about the successes and the failures that we had experienced over the last month reaching out to people who need Jesus.  While we all had things to share that we could have done better, I was so humbled to hear my guys talk about what they had done.  The Holy Spirit prompted, they responded in obedience.  I can’t imagine a greater group of guys to do life with.

We talked at length about how when we enter into spiritual conversations, God has already been at work long before we speak.  Whether it is someone’s praying grandmother, someone who has sown seed before hand, or the Holy Spirit convicting that person concerning sin, we are not starting with no foundation.  God has been on the move in that person’s life.

Great series on evangelism, but our group committed to each other that this would not just be a fad that passes as we move into another series.  We will be checking in with each other regularly concerning to whom we are reaching out.

Hope you learned a ton too!

What a day great day in the neighborhood!  It was another wonderful day at North Side as we talked about helping those people in the ditch.  Holy Spirit – send us out!

I loved hearing from the Erskines today and how God is using them at Connie Maxwell.  So wonderful to know that by giving at North Side you are supporting so many amazing ministries.

Jeff’s message was spot on.  I prayed today that we would apply today’s message and that Greenwood would be changed because of it!

Today, we worshiped to:

• Kingdom Come – Travis Agnew (to be released soon)
• Everlasting God – North Side Worship version
• Our God – Chris Tomlin
• Mighty to Save – Laura Story version

LOVED hearing you sing out so much today!  God is definitely moving at North Side, and I am so excited to see how he is going to change this town through us!

This Sunday, we are starting a brand new series at North Side called “Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?”  The heart of this new series is a call for personal evangelism. We want our people to live the lifestyle of a missionary in their daily lives. Specifically, we want our people to be attentive and intentional about connecting with the people around them. We want them to live with their eyes wide open to the spiritual condition and needs of those in their own neighborhood. This series will seek to challenge our members to pay attention to the opportunities around them to point people to God.

We get the new Compass on Sunday which has this series and the next, “30 Days to Live.”  We pray this month of March leading up to Easter will be a month where our church starts to bleed evangelism.  If you are like me, this topic is one that causes shame in my life because I never feel like I am bold enough.  I never feel like I am sharing enough.  We are praying that we put aside our inadequacies and start praying that the Holy Spirit give us the boldness and power that Jesus promised (Acts 1:8).

Hope to see you there!

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Also, I am thrilled that my dear friends Josh and Tasha Via will be leading us in worship this Sunday.  I led worship with them in college, got to lead worship at their wedding, and they are just all around some of my favorite people in the world.  They will be leading for this weekend’s Disciple Now and I couldn’t pass up on them leading us on Sunday.  You do not want to miss it!