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Hillsong NYC

10.31.2010 — 2 Comments

I had heard that Hillsong Church (Australia) was launching a church in New York City – Hillsong NYC. I wasn’t keeping up with the details and found out today that they held their first service just a few weeks ago on October 17th.

The church is co-pastored by Joel Houston & Carl Lentz. They will launch weekly services in February and are doing the monthly gathering soft-launch model that is seeming to be more and more popular with new church plants.

Judging from their launch-video, I’m excited to see that that they are reaching a large population from the city for the Lord!

I love what Carl says in the video: “If New York City is a melting pot, then Hillsong NYC should reflect that. And our prayer is that God will always give us favor so that our church will be a place where anybody can call it home.”

I’m proud to be a part of the ONE church around the world that surrenders to Jesus Christ as our head. I will continue to pray for churches like Hillsong NYC that are waving proudly the banner of our Lord Jesus!

NYC is only 4-ish hours away from us here in Shippensburg. Who’s up for a Saturday road trip?

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My Candid Pastoral Interview with @HeathMullikin

10.26.2010 — Leave a comment

While I was in Indianapolis for FUEL 2010, one of my ministry-peers and friend – Heath Mullikin asked me for an interview about my first couple of months of ministry. He, too, had recently (within the last couple of months) transitioned from full-time youth ministry to leading his first church. The conversation was terrific and we captured it on ‘digital’ film.

Heath is also featuring this interview on his website: chaseyourlion.com

PART 1

PART 2:

Interesting…according to the screenshots of both of these video clips, I must use my hands when I communicate. Can anyone verify or deny my over-use of hand-signals while communicating?

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Sunday Review | 2010.10.24

10.25.2010 — 1 Comment

I wrapped up the series “REAL CHURCH” this weekend with a sermon revolving around our church’s “Divine Focus” to Love God and Love People. I spent time focused on James 2:14-26 and the idea that it is NOT enough that we continue to worship the Lord inside the walls of our church, grow in faith, continue to disciple believers WITHOUT putting ACTION to our quest to LOVE PEOPLE.

I then tried to explain our version of the traditional “servant evangelism” that has continued to be a popular faith-action amongst evangelicals.

At the close of the service I passed out handfuls of “connect cards” to our families for them to have the opportunity to hand them out as they share the love of Christ in practical ways in our community. We are also working on some team-based opportunities in the near future for us to collectively LOVE PEOPLE in practical ways. I am more-than-excited about this emphasis!

Our connect cards:

FRONT:

BACK:

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FUEL 2010 (#FUEL2010) Complete Session Videos

10.23.2010 — Leave a comment

I finally finished uploading all of the session videos to YouTube. Here they are in order:






Also, a couple of our “humorous additions” to FUEL 2010:



FUEL is the yearly Wesleyan Youth Pastors training and gathering opportunity developed by the Spiritual Formation Department. It was my pleasure to have been a part of this event this year!

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Product Review: Christianity, Cults & Religions [DVD curriculum]

10.18.2010 — 7 Comments

A few days ago, I was sent a copy of the DVD, “Christianity, Cults & Religions” to sample and review from Rose Publishing. This afternoon I made some time to sit and watch through the first of six lecture-based studies and was very impressed.

The lecturer, Paul Carden is extremely knowledgeable and easy-to-understand. The first session gives a well-grounded Biblical basis for a study of this nature and Carden gives ample reasoning for why Christians today need to go through a study of this nature.

I am already planning on using this study in my adult Sunday school class in a few weeks.

The DVD curriculum includes six 30-minute lectures from Carden as well as a supplemental DVD with a PDF of the Leader’s Guide which can be printed and used in the classroom setting.

The DVD retails for $29.99 and is available for purchase here if you’re interested.

Here is a promotion-video for the DVD-based study:

From the product description: “Paul Carden, one of the most respected specialists in this field, has spent 30 years researching, writing and broadcasting on the topics of cults and new religions. He is the general editor of the best-selling cults comparison chart, Christianity, Cults & Religions.”

Rose Publishing sent me a couple copies of Carden’s “Cults Comparison Chart” that I am giving away here on stevansheets.com

To be entered in a drawing to receive one of these glossy comparison charts, simply comment below leaving your contact information and I’ll pick the winners by November 1st. The comparison chart is available on Amazon.com for $3.99, but you can potentially get one sent to you FREE simply by commenting on this blog post! Check out the comparison chart’s description over at Amazon.

Here is a video showing the chart’s usefulness:

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