Have you ever felt like your brain was going to short circuit from information overload? For the past week, Jamie and I have been learning so much, I could swear we've had smoke coming out of our ears.
Pastors Matt and Sarah Keller along with their 18 mos old son and two college students, moved to Ft Myers, Florida in 2001 from Ft. Wayne, Indiana in answer to the call of God to start a church here. They started Next Level Church in a coffee shop with four others. Today, NLC has about 1200 members. Every week, God is doing awesome stuff.
For the past week, Jamie and I (along with Amelia) have been guests of NLC at the first ever Association of Related Churches (ARC) R9 church planters training intensive. We've been soaking up information like a sponge from 9:00 AM every morning till 9:00 PM at night. It has been one of the most amazing learning experiences of my entire life.
There is a ton of stuff that I am going to share on this blog that I've learned over the past few days. However, something Matt said today has really stuck with me: "For us, the critical number is always ONE, one broken heart healed, one marriage mended, one person finding Christ, one life changed. That is what we are after, that is what defines our success." It's the same attitude as Jesus in Luke 15, when he leaves the ninety-nine to find the one lost sheep.
Think about it. How have you impacted just ONE this week for Jesus?
