How The Revolution Thrives

Here are some highlights from this weekend at Elevate Church:

• It was our third week in New Year's ReVolution.  We talked about How The Revolution Thrives.
• The way the revolution thrives is contribute.
• It is about moving from spiritual consumers to contributors. It's about moving form spectators to participators.  It's about turning an audience into an army!
• The church isn't a cruise ship but a battleship.
• How we are going to THRIVE this year:
• Read Matthew 25:14-30.
• 1) Focus my time.
• Our greatest prayer should be - "Lord, remind me how BRIEF my time on earth will be." (Psalm 39:4)
• You can choose to invest time or waste time. 
• Everyone has 24 hours in a day.  How you use that time will in many ways define you.
• Many of us have a to do list.  What we really need is a stop doing list.
• Don't allow the urgent to dominate what is most important.
• 2) Unleash My Talents.
• "God has given each of you a GIFT from His great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them WELL to serve one another." - 1 Peter 4:10
• God has placed natural talents and spiritual gifts in your hands.  What will you do with it?
• I don't want this church to limp around because everyone in the body of Christ is not in their place!
• You must get involved and let Jesus bring out of you what He has placed inside of you.
• Every Christian is called to have a ministry in the church.
• It was awesome to see people giving our staff team a standing ovation.  I am proud of them.  They are rock stars!  
• The church is built with servants not superstars!  
• Want to become great in God's Kingdom? Become the servant of all!
• I am so proud of our volunteers and what they pull off every week.  They are incredible!  
• 3) Leverage my treasure.
• "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:21
• Don't follow your heart. Lead your heart!
• Jesus doesn't need your money. He wants your heart and He knows for most of us that is through our wallets.
• Don't pray for God to provide for your tomorrow if you aren't being faithful with what He has given you today.
• The way God entrusts us with more is being faithful with little.
• Parable of Talents (Matthew 25) message: Will you just give what you do have?  When I choose to keep my talents and treasure,  I forfeit God's blessings and provision.  When I put them to work, I set myself up for God to pour out His blessings and provision!
• Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.  We challenged everyone to serve on a ministry team and to take the tithing challenge.  
• It was awesome to see new people to sign up to serve and to see so many people commit to tithe or give above a tithe.
• We had someone who hasn't been to church in almost 20 years come to church last week.  He was back this week too!
• We watched a video testimony of a couple in our church.  They never served or gave a tithe before coming to Elevate.  They are now doing both and experiencing God's blessings as a result of it.  That's awesome!
• This year we are going to contribute more of our time, talents, and treasure to see Jesus do even greater things!