F.A.Q. - All the questions you’ve had but been too afraid to ask!

We’re starting a NEW series this Sunday that I’ve been excited about for a long time.  So many people complain about churches because they don’t answer the questions that people are asking.  Well, at Experience Life, that’s about to change.  We are going to answer all kinds of questions that people have asked me in my first year of pastoring this church.  We will address questions that relate to God, the church, and sin.

Bring your friends!  You won’t want to miss it.  It is going to be awesome!

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Lesson Learned: Don’t Pray Too Small

After watching God move over these last two weeks, I’ve learned that I often pray way too small.  I ask God to do what I think are HUGE things and it seems like he exceeds my expectations every time.  I feel like we are right in the middle of this verse:

Ephesians 3:20-21 - “Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.  Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever! Amen.”

God told Habakkuk in the Old Testament that He was going to do something so incredible in his day that he wouldn’t believe it even if someone told him.  If someone would’ve told us what God would do over the last few weeks and over this last year, we wouldn’t have believed it.  All that to say, dream big, pray big, and be amazed by what God will do!

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Record Attendance - 1,510 Last Weekend!

God continues to do immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine! We’ve had over 800 people join us for worship each week in August and we were praying for 1,000+ for our One Year Anniversary. Well, I guess we were dreaming too small because God exceeded that dream by about 500 people. Unbelievable!

Our Saturday Night Service launched with 525 people which left us with standing room only. Everyone could sense that God was going to do something incredible and He did! You’ll have to check out the video on our website.

Just when we thought things couldn’t get any better, Sunday morning exploded. We had our largest service ever at 11am with 650 people. Check out the photo below. People were sitting on rails, benches, and pool tables. It was incredible!

If you’ve never been a part of what God is doing at Experience Life, we’d love for you to drop by sometime. We currently meet on Saturdays @ 5pm and Sundays @ 9:30 & 11am!

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Experience Life’s One Year Anniversary - September 6-7

It’s hard to believe. Experience Life is turning ONE! We are going to pull out all the stops in order to celebrate. Here’s what we’re doing on the weekend of September 6-7.

  1. NEW Saturday Night Service - starting September 6th, we are launching a Saturday Night Worship Service at 5pm. We will now have 3 identical services - Sat @ 5pm & Sun @ 9:30 & 11am.
  2. LIVE CD Recording - the Experience Life Worship Band will be recording their first album on September 6th after our 5pm Worship Service. We will have FREE pizza and cokes for everyone who comes!
  3. NEW Series - Bringing Sexy Back - we are kicking off the Fall with a NEW series on relationships. You won’t want to miss this, so join us and bring the special somebody in your life.
  4. Pool Party & Cookout - on Sunday, Sept 7th, we are inviting families to bring their kids to church in their swimming suits. After the 11am service, we will have lunch together as a church and let the kids swim.
We have grown from just a couple of people to over 800 in the last year and it has been incredible to watch. God is doing something amazing and we want you to come and celebrate with us! See ya there!
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eLife presents “At the Movies 2008″ starting THIS weekend, August 10th!

Movies?  In church?  You better believe it!  Beginning August 10th and lasting through August 31st we will be bringing the latest blockbusters to our Worship Gathering at Experience Life.  Each week we will show clips of these movies and talk about some of the spiritual applications that can be drawn from them.

This will be an INCREDIBLE series and definitely one you won’t want to miss.

This is also a great series to bring your friends to that don’t regularly attend church.  I think that everyone will find that this will be very relevant to their everyday lives.

See you on Sunday!

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New Series “I QUIT” begins THIS Sunday!

We just finished a series called “One Prayer” and it was incredible!  We joined over 1300 other churches and 800,000 people for a series on prayer.  There are plans to do this series again NEXT June on a global level.  The church is coming together like never before…

Summer is a time where we are often reminded of how much we need a vacation.  Life is stressful.  Work is crazy.  We need to get away!  We need to REST!  But… how do we find rest in a world that pushes us to work ourselves to death?  That’s what we are going to talk about during this upcoming series.  If you are stressed out and needing a break, you won’t want to miss this!

July 6th - I Need a Vacation
July 13th - My Job is Killing Me
July 20th - My Family is Driving Me Nuts
July 27th - More to Life (Remix)

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Monday Prayer Gathering attendance TRIPLED!

After beginning our One Prayer series last Sunday, our attendance at our Monday Night Prayer Gathering tripled!  It was an incredible time of prayer for our church and our community.  We are praying that Monday Nights continue to grow throughout this series as people catch the vision to gather together corporately and pray.

I believe we are on the verge of something HUGE and I can’t wait to see what God is going to do.

Join us on Monday Night @ 7pm at the Sportsplex as we unite together in prayer.  It is an extremely casual & relaxed time and no one is asked to pray out loud or do anything uncomfortable.  We simply mention prayer requests and people pray as God leads.

We’ll see you there!

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Five Weeks. One Prayer. 800 Churches.

Our Dangerous Church series has been incredible!  The 1st century church believed a dangerous message and it resulted in a world-wide impact.  That’s what we’re praying for at eLife.  We don’t want to just “sit and soak”, we want to make a difference in our community and in our world in Jesus’ name.

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In two weeks, on June 1st, we will begin a series unlike anything we’ve done before.  If you are scheduling a vacation in June, you may want to stay home (haha).  Seriously… for 5 weeks we are going to join with over 800 churches in a series called One Prayer.  What if the churches of this country could unite together in prayer for our nation and for our world?  Could something revolutionary happen?  I think so! 

Check this out… at Experience Life, 2 of the 5 weeks will be live at our campus and for 3 of the 5 weeks we will literally “join” some of these other congregations via video.  You won’t believe it until you see it.  It’s going to rock!

Make sure to join us and 800 other churches starting June 1st for 5 weeks.  It’s going to be dangerous… in a good way of course :)

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From Victorious Secrets to Dangerous Church…

Well, the last couple of weeks have been incredible!  Since Easter we have had over 700 people come consistently each week to worship with us.  There is a ton of energy in both of our services and it we always wait in expectation to see what God is going to do each week.  I think God is radically changing all of our lives and it seems like everyone is craving to experience God’s best in their lives. 
 
We are wrapping up our Victorious Secrets series this weekend and we will begin a new series the following week that I am totally pumped about.  The new series is called “Dangerous Church.”  We will journey back about 2000 years to see what the first church looked like and see how we compare.  Are we as dangerous as they were?  
 
Please continue to pray for eLife that God would give us wisdom in handling the explosive growth we are experiencing.  
 
See you Sunday! 
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Easter was INCREDIBLE!

We really can’t believe it… we were expecting about 500-1,000 people at our Easter Egg Drop the day before Easter.  5,000 eggs would have been plenty for that many people.  But instead, we had approximately 4,000-5,000 people show up.  Definitely not enough eggs for that many people.  We were so disappointed that some kids went home without eggs, but how could we have guessed it would be that big?  We still considered it a HUGE success and we hope to do something MUCH BIGGER next year! 
 
Then, Easter morning was incredible!  We had almost 900 people come to worship with us.  That is a record high for us!  Josh, a Jew, shared his testimony about his journey to faith in Christ and it was incredible.  Make sure you check out the podcast or video on our website at www.ExperienceLifeNow.com 
 
Join us for the rest of our Victorious Secrets series… it’s going to be awesome! 
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