»CONFESSIONS of a Reformission Rev.

WOW! I barely finished this book... I only have a couple of minutes to blog about.. brag about it. This is awesome... I dedicated the whole night to reading it... and I finished it.

This is the story of Mark Driscoll planting Mars Hill, a church of 6,000 people in Seattle, one of the least churched cities in America... He says that there are more dogs than Christians in Seattle. That's funny. It was insightful. I love reading stuff from people that went through it, you know? Not just people that call themselves experts and just know statistics and do not know the "work" that was done to get the statistics.

This guy started with nothing and now he has Elders (Pastors) that are helping him grow Mars Hill. I enjoyed it...

He also gave good instruction... good advice, and good counsel. I learned a lot from him.

I will read his next book... "Radical Reformission."

If you are ayoung leader and are called to be a Pastor or a Minister, you need to read this book. It will help you. Wow.

I'm going home. I'm at work.

I will post more about CONFESSIONS OF A REFORMED REV tomorrow.

Goodnight.

»Charles Spurgeon!

"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth."

2 Timothy 2:15

This picture is of Charles Spurgeon... The prince of preachers. Pastor of Pastors. He is amazing!

We need a love for God's Word. That's how He talks to us...

Spend some time reading it...

» LOOK UNTO ME!

Charles Spurgeon... The man! He has been one of the most enjoyable preachers to read. I say "read" because this guy was alive in the 1800's... He is awesome. I have always been amazed by his story and his work. Great sermons! He was 15 when he was converted... He started pastoring when he was 20 YEARS OLD. He pastored one of the largest churches of his time... more than 6,000 members at one time. Imagine that! Without TV, Blogs, Myspace, Cell phones... you get the point.

He is one of my mentors... Seriously! He still speaks to my life whenever I read the lectures that he gave to Pastors. Rich!

Here is the story of his conversion. Check it out!

"I was miserable, I could do scarcely anything. My heart was broken to pieces. Six months did I pray, prayed agonizingly with all my heart, and never had an answer. I resolved that in the town where I lived I would visit every place of worship, in order to find the way of salvation. I felt I was willing to do anything if God would only forgive me. I set off determined to visit all the chapels, and though I deeply venerate the men who occupy those pulpits now, and did so then, I am bound to say, that I never heard them once fully preach the gospel. ... At last, one snowy day, I found rather an obscure street and turned down a court, and there was a little chapel. I wanted to go somewhere, but I did not know this street. It was the Primitive Methodists' chapel. I had heard of this people from many, and how they sang so loudly that they made people's heads ache; but that did not matter. I wanted to know how I might be saved, and if they made my head ache ever so much, I did not care. So sitting down, the service went on, but no minister came. At last a very thin-looking man came into the pulpit. He opened the Bible and read these words: "Look unto me and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth." Just setting his eyes upon me, as if he knew me all by heart, he said: "Young man, you are in trouble!" Well, I was, sure enough. Says he: "You will never get out of it unless you look to Christ." Then, lifting his eyes, he cried, as only a Primitive Methodist could do, "Look, look, look!" I saw at once the way of salvation. O, how I did leap for joy at that moment! I know not what else he said, I was so possessed with that one thought. ... I looked until I could almost have looked my eyes away, and in heaven I will look on still, in my joy unspeakable."

WOW!
Look Unto Me!
That will preach, man!