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 else I observed, learned, and experienced at MOVIE NIGHT:

• Big props to Maria and the ladies on the DC STAFF for coming up with the bubbles idea. KIDS LOVE BUBBLES. God loves to make kids smile (Jesus loves being around kids and so should we). Churches are a place for kids; let’s never forget that (I know I do sometimes and I have two of them:) WE STARTED A BUBBLE REVOLUTION IN DOWNTOWN MANCHESTER. Kids were blowing bubbles all over the place, it looked so cool. As I saw those bubbles floating through the sky I thought of the impact we could make for Jesus on every soul represented there.
• We’ll never have 500 souls GATHERING ON THE WEEKENDS if we aren’t reaching out to 500 souls by SCATTERING ON THE WEEKDAYS. If we want people to gather on the weekend then we must scatter during the week. A church that gathers is a church that scatters. We must first reach out to 500 souls if we want to bring in 500 souls. We must first invest in 500 souls far from God if we want to invite 500 souls to encounter Christ in our churches. Then we can introduce them to the Jesus who died for them.
• IT IS ALL ABOUT JESUS, EVERYTHING WE DO IS ALL ABOUT JESUS AT THE DC! Thanks to all the mentors who have invested in me and The DC Team: big props to Rob Willis at thejourneynh.com, Anthony Milas at graniteunited.com and my new friend Josh Gagnon at nlc.tv.

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.

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 and experienced at MOVIE NIGHT:

• As organizational leaders and church pastors we must stop making excuses for why people STEP DOWN and start creating expectations for people to STEP UP. Ministry is hard work – get over it:) That is my nice way of saying, Jesus gave His life in service to others so we might take a hold of salvation (forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, the sweet life forever with God, which starts NOW on earth). Jesus is our example of sacrifice in ministry – He gave everthing, so should we. I was PROUD OF teamDC last night. They sacrificially gave of themselves and poured love into the cracks and crevices of downtown Manchester (I love MY CHURCH and I love this CITY)! Thank you Jesus for calling me and my family to this amazing MISSION OF LOVE.
• As far as marketing goes, GIVING TO THE COMMUNITY IS THE WAY TO GO. Marketing for us is all about communicating the greatest story ever told (the story of God’s love for humanity and how He sent His only Son to die on the cross for our sin-stained souls to be saved forever). We want to promote Jesus, not the pastor, not even the church per se, but we want to MARKET JESUS TO A MARKET WITHOUT JESUS. We want to bring the love and message of Jesus Christ to those far from God, and the only way to do that is to get outside the four walls of the church and share love, serve the people, and reach the culture. I really dig sending mailers but what we were able to do last night put us in direct contact with people. Jesus was infamous for touching the untouchables and loving the unlovables. I love that about Jesus and I love that about The Dialogue Church! We want to love the unloved, we want to bring the touch of Jesus to those who have never experienced his soul-morphing touch before.