I can confirm from a very, very reliable source that Mark Driscoll will be speaking for 2 nights on the Central Coast. Monday 25 August 2008 – speaking to Christians about being on mission. Tuesday 26 August 2008 – speaking about Jesus… It’s all about Jesus.
Mark Driscoll is the preaching pastor at Mars Hill Church Seattle. He’ll be speaking at a number of events in and around Sydney that week including Engage (the site has been given a sweet makeover) with Don Carson and a special Wednesday (27 August) night event at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
Stay tuned for more info…
Stoked out!
AW MAN! Now everyone will know about it!
And there won’t be any room for non-Christians at the outreach one :P
Sick puppies!
I read Billy Graham’s autobiography in the holidays, and it was really interesting how highly he valued prayer. He wouldn’t even do a crusade in a place unless the vast majority of churches there were supporting it and working together on it and actively praying for it.
I’m convinced that unless we pray, no-one will be saved.
Let’s pray!
OK, God might choose to save some people despite our lack of faith.
But no-one will be saved because Mark is a great communicator, or anything like that.
So Pray!
And there won’t be any room for non-Christians at the outreach one
there’s a plan to make sure, as far as able, that that doesn’t happen.
stay tuned.
start praying
keep praying
Yeah, I think Adrian was telling me. The overflow room, which we chuck Christians in if it fills up, right?
not totally.
stay tuned…
I was talking to Lachlan G about this today.
I reckon we should push to get it into Bluetongue Stadium. Trust God to fill it.
why do it just for one week?
why not do church and youth group there too??
Hrmmmm…
Interesting question. Most of the arguments against doing church in the stadium (cost, chances of filling it) are at least common in type, if not scale, to doing a rally in a stadium.
I would say that the size of a church building needs to reflect the needs (and hence, size) of the church congregation, while the size of a rally building needs to reflect the needs (hence size) of the desired target audience, or at the very least the expected audience.
The targetted audience (ie, the whole central coast) will always be bigger than the church congregation, and so if we are attempting any form of mass evangelism [as is any form of pulpit preaching, IMO], it follows that the capacity of the venue ought to be larger.
Point taken that if we ‘trust God to fill the stadium’ for one event, it is inconsistant to say we can’t trust him to fill it every week. But perhaps this is how God will fill the church.
Logistically, it is much cheaper and easier to do one event there than 52 a year, and more likely that thousands will come for a one off, ‘celelbrity’ evangelist than for the every-day service.
I take it, then, that you are opposed to using the stadium? Or just playing devil’s advocate?
If you are opposed, don’t you think we can fill it?
i’m not opposed to using the stadium… i just don’t think this year is the year to do it!