Greg Davis - Technically Speaking

This coming Sunday, June 8, Fellowship Church (Glen Mills, PA) is going to be joining with 1300 churches and over 760,000 people in a unique and historic event. Churches from all over the globe will be doing a new series together, called “One Prayer”.

The theme of this series is:

“If God would answer ‘one prayer’ for the church at large, what would you pray?” 

Pastor John is going to start us off with his message “God, make us different” as Live Different has been the theme for our church this year. The following 4 weeks we get to hear some outstanding pastors from different churches across the country via video. Fellowship will be hearing:

• Craig Groeshel (LifeChurch.tv in Edmund, OK)
• Wayne Cordeiro (New Hope Christian Fellowship, in Honolulu HI)
• Ed Young (Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX)
• Perry Nobe (New Spring Church in Anderson, SC)

It is so amazing to realize that so many churches are all joining together ‘to be one’ in the month of June!  Imagine, 1300 churches all doing the same series at the same time for the same purpose!  Beyond just the message series, these churches will have opportunity to all contribute to a missions project to help plant 500 new churches in Cambodia, China, India and the Sudan. If you are not familiar already with the concept behind the series, watch below or here.

In addition to partcipating on Sundays, the One Prayer web site has a blog where you can join the conversation (here is the RSS feed if you want to subscribe in a reader).

The significance of this event really struck me when looking at it in reference to Jesus’ prayer in John 17:20-24:

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” (NIV) 

WOW!  This year has been a big one for me in hearing God’s calling about my life and the passion He has put inside me. I know that helping the church realize and achive things like this with the aide of technology is what I was made for.  I was created to serve Jesus with the gifts He gave me for this purpose. I am very excited to be taking part in this historic event and to be serving the church at this point in history and standing on the threshhold of something incredible.

I am looking forward to see God elevate how we reach our communities with the name of Jesus!  I am desperate to be a part of it!

If you are involved with video editing or post production work, you’ll enjoy this!  You can watch below or go here. (hit play and give it a few minutes to load).
 

Trans Siberian in Service from FC Post on Vimeo.

This was produced for the opening of a Christmas service at Fellowship Church (in Texas).  To read about how they did it, check out Pace Hartfield’s post here.  He is the Worship Pastor serving with Ed Young.  

(HT to Greg Atkinson)

To conclude my visit to Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to go to the 5:00 pm Saturday night experience at the Edmond campus and then the 6:30pm experience at the Oklahoma City campus. Edmond is a satellite campus and gets a live feed direct from the OKC campus. Both services rocked! The worship was incredible at both, but the thing that surprised me the most was how baptisms where handled at Edmond. During the service the main center screen showed baptism taking place live, but in a different area.

The really cool part was that during this time we did not stop singing or praising, but rather we were encouraged by the worship leader to do so even louder each time a new believe came up out of the water! I really felt like we were joining with the angels in hevean as they rejoiced and celebrated.

LifeChurch.tv OKC CampusAt OKC campus I got to see Craig Groeschel preach in person. I was impressed with how good the first service I saw at the Edmond campus was in comparision to the service where Craig preaches from directly. 

These service were enjoyable on may levels. First, I love the loud, all-out
Stage Area for Warror Series worship style with plenty of guitar and drums. These guys didn’t hold anything back and it showed. They gave everything they have and I believe Christ was honored. Second, these are definately services you could invite an unchurched friend or neighbor to. Nothing to be ashamed of or embarassed about. Third, the Word of God was preached openly.  There is no question that Craig is a man after God’s heart and it shows in his preaching.

I’m glad I got to see LifeChurch.tv in person. They are doing amazing things for Jesus not only in Oklahoma but all across the country and even the world. I had previously only seen them via the Internet Campus, which I must say is also very high quality and very real. If you have never tried it, you might want to take a peek. If you don’t believe the internet is an effective tool for reaching people for Christ, listen to campus pastor Brandon as he talks about the impact it had in the month of March alone. Over 400 people made decisions to commit their lives to Christ!

 
The team at LifeChurch.tv is not afraid to try new things. You may have heard last year about there virtual campus in Second Life.  If not, you can take a free tour here.