To God Be The Glory!

Yesterday was a great day of worship here at Bible Center Church. Easter is such an incredible day to exalt who our Savior is and to celebrate what He has done for us in His death, burial, and resurrection. Through the Scripture reading, music, fellowship, and preaching, each of the morning services did lift up our risen Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. As a pastor, it is my favorite preaching day of the year. My theory is that if you can’t preach a biblically based, passionate message on Easter Sunday you might as well quit preaching.

God gave us a tremendous opportunity to share the hope of Christ’s resurrection with many guests yesterday. Many of our church family members introduced me to friends or loved ones with whom they have been sharing the gospel. It was exciting to meet folks that we have been praying would come to Christ. I have already received a couple of emails from individuals telling me that the guest they had with them yesterday has been asking probing questions about the message of hope they heard in our worship services. Praise the Lord! Let us continue to pray that the Holy Spirit will work in hearts, and that individuals who were with us yesterday will yet come to Christ as Savior.

One of our goals yesterday was to make all of the logistics of the morning (parking, nurseries, seating, etc.) run so smoothly that nothing would become a distraction from the message of the morning. I thank God for using so many people to accomplish this—from nursery workers and parking lot attendants to those who rearranged their morning schedule to worship with us at eight or who parked at one of the offsite parking lots and shuttled over to the church. We had over 475 people at the 8:00 service and we parked more than 100 cars off-site during the peak of our morning. Thanks to all of you who helped facilitate the logistics and to all of you who adjusted your Sunday morning routine. God used us, as we worked together as a body of believers, to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Overall, compared to last year’s number of 1,914 people in attendance in all three morning services, we had 2,075 people in all three services. Praise the Lord! What a joy and a privilege it is for me as God’s messenger to communicate the message of hope found in Jesus Christ to so many people. I am truly humbled that God can use us as a church in this way, and I am even more deeply humbled that He chooses in His sovereignty and grace to use me. To God be the glory!