Breaking the Barriors

Hey everyone! Sorry it has been a while but my Internet has been down for the last seven days. Today I learned that we had a record breaking attendance for the month of October here at the church. We broke through to the next level in attendance in every area of our church. Sunday morning was higher than it has ever been, as was Sunday Evening, Sunday School, and Wednesday LIFE night. God is truly moving in our church and we are seeing great growth come from everywhere. I am so excited about what is going on and I know that it is going to do nothing but get larger and larger. New families are coming into the church each week and people are excited about being here. God is doing something but He is about to BLOW THE DOORS OFF OF THE CHURCH. I can feel the presence of the Lord in the house and I know that there is great things about to happen at South Decatur. The power of the Lord is moving in the church and people are given their lives to Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is moving through every service. A lot is happening and I am so glad that I am a part of the movement of God.

Moving Forward

WOW! What a great two weeks. As some of you may know last week was homecoming here at South Decatur, and it was awesome. We had a record number in attendance, and the service was incredible. Pastor Paul Meacham from Gordo, AL. did a great job preaching the Word and the altars were full (that's what it is all about). Everything went great and the only thing that could have been better was if we were in our new Family Life Center for dinner. Was a little crowed but we managed OK and everything turned out great.
Yesterday was a good day at the church. Our attendance was awesome and there was a great spirit in the church. We had a few guest with us and a large number in attendance. Our morning Bible Study (Sunday School) is really growing and Children's Church is moving forward. Overall we are really moving in the right direction. Sunday Night was a powerful service and God moved on people in the altar. Allot of churches are down on Sunday Night and some so much that they have stopped having service but we have a great number that come out and God always moves in the Sunday Evening service.
All and all the church is in great shape and we are moving forward in a mighty way. I am excited about what God is doing and even more excited about what He is going to do in the days to come.

Power Outage

As a pastor I pay cost attention to movements in the church world, even more so in the Pentecostal church world. One thing that concerns me is the lack of teaching and preaching that is taking place on the Holy Spirit. As we look across the church horizon we see that many churches have traded the power of the Holy Spirit for the acceptance of men. We have traded the power of Pentecost for being politically correct. Pastor talk more about being culturally relevance than they do about being Holy Ghost filled. The house of God has turned into a Coffee shop, and the pulpit into the family den. Now don't get me wrong, I understand that the method of delivering our message has to change with the times, but have we worked so hard to break away from the traditional that we have thrown the baby out with the bath water.
I am a wide open, on fire ten miles from water preacher. That is who I am, I believe that God has anointed me to preach the Gospel with passion, to loose those that are in prison (spiritual, physically, and emotionally). In the ministry that God has allowed me to be a part of I have seen many people delivered from all kinds of addictions and sin. I have witnessed as God has delivered drug addicts, sex addicts, alcoholic and many more from their addictions. I have seen God cure cancer, heart disease, brain tumors and many more things, and the one thing that has been in all of these is the power of the Holy Spirit. In every case there was a move of God that stirred the hearts of men and women, and through that brought them to an altar where God moved in their lives. My prayer is that the power of the Holy Spirit will become real to each and everyone of you.