Lessons from NorthwayChurch.tv, Pt.2

Recently, my wife, Dawn and I had the privilege of traveling to Northway Church (www.northwaychurch.tv) in Albany, NY to spend some time with Lead Pastor Buddy Cremeans and his amazing staff. I am still trying to process all that I learned from this trip, but let me try and unload some here:

HONOR
The number one thing I picked up from the culture of Northway Church was HONOR. WOW! They have created such an amazing culture of honor in their faith community. Let me try and break that down for you.

Brian Howe (the Campus Pastor at their Colonie location) truly modeled honor for us. The staff reserved front row seats during the worship experience for us, they brought us into their Green Room to help review the worship experience immediately afterwards; and then they took us out for dinner. That is called honoring your guests. I was overwhelmed with their hospitality! Thank you!

And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of My followers, you will surely be rewarded.” (Mat 10:42 NLT)

1. HONOR GUESTS
I want to create a culture of honor like northwaychurch.tv. I want the guests at TheDC.tv to be treated with such amazing honor. I want guests at TheDC.tv to feel the love of God oozing through our faith community because we speak to them with honor, we treat them with honor, and we appreciate them as people made in the image of God. I want us to honor our guests by following up with them in genuine and caring ways. I want to shower our guests with honor when they visit our worship experience on Sundays.

We can show people how special they are in the eyes of God when we honor them appropriately. What better way to display the love and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross than to honor every guest who comes to TheDC.tv to experience God!

Thank you Buddy Cremeans, Brian Howe, Kevin Murrell, Chad, Kevin, and Jeremy, and the rest of the NorthwayChurch.tv staff for showing us how to honor our guests. I am praying we can emulate the spirit of Jesus in this same way.

To be continued…