Get a LOVE UPGRADE, Pt.3

Jesus is still in the BLESSING BUSINESS. This week we got to BLESS 500 PEOPLE WITH FREE WATER AND BUBBLES at Manchester’s Downtown Film Festival (big props to COMMUNITY EVENTS LCC for hosting it, and Chris Malloy for coordinating it).

Here is what I observed, learned, and experienced at MOVIE NIGHT:

• Our volunteers (GO TEAM DC) stepped up to the plate and they were ready to BLESS 500 PEOPLE WITH FREE WATER (and bubbles). There is no doubt in my mind that we as a church family were blessed just as much by giving away free ACTS OF KINDNESS as those on the receiving end (thank you Jesus, it is more blessed to give than to receive).
• I got to do a simple commercial for the company who hosted the event (they were promoting their giant inflatable movie screens, COMMUNITY EVENTS LCC). They asked why I was there, I said, “The Dialogue Church came here to bless this city with free water and to start a BUBBLE REVOLUTION”. They loved it. Seriously, every kid in that park had a bottle of bubbles with a DC tag on it.
• Get permission to invade an event with FREE STUFF (oops:)!
• Towards the end of the night I was talking with a young mom, we were both waiting for our children to come out of the restroom. She was frustrated, but clenched tightly in her hand was a DC tag, with an invitation to bring her family to The Dialogue Church. I was reminded that Jesus is already drawing people to Himself and we GET TO PARTNER IN THE DIVINE PROCESS OF LOVE. Seriously, its not complicated (it’s not easy either), but people want and need love and who better to hand it out than the unstoppable church of Jesus Christ! I know there were many moms and dads hurting from life, they need the living water of Jesus Christ. We are praying hard that our free water will many to the LIVING WATER OF JESUS CHRIST! Thank you Jesus for giving OUR CHURCH AND OUR CITY a LOVE UPGRADE THIS WEEK!
• We should steal great ideas from other churches and organizations in order to promote Jesus in our own local communities. Rick Warren (saddelbackchurch.com) says, “God gave us eyes – plagiarize”. LOL – I love that guy (and yes I do believe God is all over him and his ministry). We stole the idea to BLESS 500 PEOPLE WITH FREE WATER from our friends at Next Level Church (www.nlc.tv). They are doing something freak-tastic here in New England. We like to adopt and adapt great ideas from other churches. We take, make it better, and thus make it our own. Thanks to Joshuagagnon.com and the team at NLC.tv for the idea.
• If we want to go to the next level then we must study and investigate those already at the next level and beyond; we are fools if we don’t. We are prideful and insecure if we don’t want to expose our team members to other dynamic ministries; make sure the DNA matches but then let your team loose to investigate other ministries that are blowing up for Jesus.