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It's Time for an Out of Church Experience!!

Are you ready for an "out of church" experience?? After months of planning, Kindness Explosion 2010 is here, and it's time for the Church to leave the building...time to get out and Love Granbury in Jesus name!

Be sure to join us tonight at 7:00pm at Acton Baptist Church for our community wide worship service that will kick off the Kindness Explosion weekend event. Great worship being led by Lincoln Wiseman and a great message brought by Dr. Al Tizon. You will not want to miss this worship service. Christians from a vast array of denominational and non-denominational backgrounds will come together as one unified Body of Christ to worship our awesome God! It will be an experience you'll not soon forget.

For more information about any of this weekend's Kindness Explosion events, call Micky Shearon at 817-408-5273.

Final KE2010 Meeting Tomorrow (April 14th)

Please remember to be with us tomorrow, April 14th at 12:00 noon at La Fiesta for our FINAL meeting before the Kindness Explosion 2010 kicks off this Friday evening at Acton Baptist Church at 7:00pm. As always, we will have the back dining area reserved for the meeting.

I'll have everyone's tee-shirt orders ready for you to pick up, so if you have not already given me your tee-shirt money, please be sure to bring it with you to the meeting tomorrow. We will also be going over the final kindness projects everyone will be doing and I'll answer any final questions anyone might have. If you cannot be at the meeting tomorrow, please have someone attend in your place if at all possible.

Finally, I'll ask you all to be in prayer specifically for the following:

For Dr. Al Tizon, our Friday night speaker. I will be picking Dr. Tizon up from the airport on Thursday evening, so please pray for safe travel for him and that God will continue to impress upon his heart the message he wants us to hear on Friday night.

For Lincoln Wiseman, our worship leader for Friday night. Pray for God's annointing upon Lincoln as he puts together the worship service for Friday night. For the Acton Baptist Youth Praise Band as they will be leading us in worship and celebration at our wrap up service on Saturday afternoon.

For Tatianna Benson, our speaker for the Saturday afternoon wrap up service. Tati is coming in tomorrow afternoon from Atlanta, so please pray for her safe travel and God's annointing on her as well.

Pray for all those, who are yet unknown to you but not to God, that you will be touching on Saturday through your respective Kindness projects throughout this community. Pray that seeds of God's love will be planted in the hearts of every person touched by this weekend's Kindness Explosion and that the Holy Spirit will do it's work of drawing people into relationship with Christ.

Finally, pray that this weekend, especially Friday night, will be a time of repentance, renewal, restoration, fellowship and unity among the Body of Christ here in the greater Granbury area!

God is great!

Micky Shearon

On Mission: Shift from local to global thinking

Send us around the world with the news of your saving power and your eternal plan for all mankind. Psalm 67:2 (LB)

God is a global God. He has always cared about the entire world. "God so loved the world...." (John 3:16) From the beginning He has wanted family members from every nation He created. The Bible says, "From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be." (Acts 17:26, CEV)

God has done all this, so that we will look for him and reach out and find him.

Much of the world already thinks globally. The largest media and business conglomerates are all multi-national. Our lives are increasingly intertwined with those in other nations as we share fashions, entertainment, music, sports, and even fast foods. Probably most of the clothes you're wearing, and much of what you ate today was produced in another country.

We're more connected than we realize and God can use that connectedness as a means for us to fulfill his Great Commission. Jesus gave us a pattern for such involvement: "... You will tell everyone about me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and everywhere in the world." (Acts 1:8, CEV)

His followers are to reach out to their community (Jerusalem), to their country (Judea), to other cultures (Samaria) and to other nations (everywhere in the world). Note that our commission is simultaneous, not sequential.

We are called to be on mission to all four groups in some way. How would you identify these groups in your community? What nations do you believe God has called you to serve in some form?

On Mission: Shift from 'me-first' to 'God-first'

Jesus said to his followers, 'Go everywhere in the world, and tell the Good News to everyone.' Mark 16:15 (NCV)

People with "me-first" faith ask, "How can God make my life more comfortable?" They want to use God for their purposes instead of being used for his purposes.

'God-first' believers know they've been saved to serve and made for mission. They're eager to receive a personal assignment and excited about the privilege of being used by God.

Their joy, confidence, and enthusiasm are contagious because they know they're making a difference. They wake up each morning expecting God to work through them in fresh ways.

Which type of believer do you want to be?

God invites you to participate in the greatest, largest, most diverse, and most significant cause in history - building his Kingdom. History is his story; he's building his family for eternity. Nothing matters more and nothing will last as long.

From the book of Revelation we know God's global mission will be accomplished, that someday the Great Commission will be the Great Completion. In heaven, an enormous crowd of people "from every race, tribe, nation, and language" will one day stand before Jesus Christ to worship him. (Revelation 7:9, CEV)

Becoming a 'God-first' believer will allow you to experience in advance a little of what heaven will be like.

Getting Your Church Noticed: Sticker Shock, of a Good Kind!

Sticker shock at the gasoline pump is a subject on nearly everyone’s
mind these days. Ease a little bit of the burden in your own community
by lowering the price of gas at a chosen gas station for a few hours one
Saturday. You’ll see lines at the pump, but drivers will all have smiles on
their faces for a change!

Here’s how it would work: Your church would pledge and collect a
specific amount of money. Before your event, go to your congregation
to raise the necessary funds. Explain that your church would like to
offer a benefit to the community by helping people lower their gasoline
prices at the pump. That money would be used to allow customers at a
specific gas station in your town to pay less at the pump for a few hours
on a given day. For example, if the regular price of gas is $3.00, your
church could enable customers to buy the same gas at $2.75 from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. on a specified Saturday.

Next, find a local gas station at a prominent intersection. Ask the
owner if your church could take two hours on a Saturday to offer
gasoline at prices lower than the regular cost. Explain that your church
will make up the difference. Say that your church simply wants to do
something helpful for the community. (It wouldn’t hurt to point out that
the event will probably garner the gas station lots of free publicity!)
Ask the owner approximately how much gas the station sells during
the specified two hours on any given Saturday. This will give you an
idea of how much money your church needs to raise.

This event will likely result in long lines at the pump. For once, that’s
a good thing! So don’t be conservative in your fundraising estimations.
The more money you collect before the event, the more you can give
away!

Before the big day, make lots of signs that tell the “new” price of
gas and the hours it will be offered. Make sure your church’s name is
clearly displayed.

If you want to go the extra mile, have church volunteers offer
drivers soft drinks as they wait their turn at the pump. Kids from your
youth group could be available to wash windows as an added service.
And when anyone asks why your church is sponsoring such an event,
just say that you want to help people and spread the love of God
around town!

KE2010 News

Hey all you Kindness Explosion church reps...don't forget to make arrangements with your church's media person this week to have the Kindness Explosion intro video shown this next Sunday sometime during your service. Since the video is only 2:38, it fits perfectly into the beginning, middle or end of your service. Hint - it works really well in place of special music during the offertory!

But whenever it runs, lets try to have everyone run it this next Sunday. Also, if you run the video, you need to start having sign-up sheets available for people to sign up. I know a couple of you were planning on running it today. Thanks for the head start!!

Also, Janie Walker has graciously agreed to facilitate a weekly prayer calendar for us in the weeks leading up to KE2010. Each week, Janie will be Emailing out a scripture for us to meditate on, a short devotional thought, and a suggested prayer focus for that week. Actually, her first email went out yesterday for this week. Please make sure that Janie's email (office@paluxybaptist.org) is in your address book so her emails don't get spammed :-). I really want us as the corporate Body of Christ to spend some focused time in prayer asking God to bring together His Church in this community in a spirit of unity and worship that will result in an outflow of God's love to the hurting and unchurched people in this area!

Have a great week, and if you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call at 817-408-5273 or email me at micky@lovegranbury.org.