Furtick again

I've been viewing Steve Furtick's sermons online, and they're quite good. A quote from one of his sermons:

2 Cor 8:1 And now brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches.”

What’s he doing? He’s invoking a little healthy competition. He’s telling the Corinthian church, “now we’ve already been to the Macedonian churches to get their portion for the offering, and let me tell ya, they knocked it out of the park…have you ever done this to your kids before? I do it. Sometimes if my three year old doesn’t want to pay me any attention, I’ll say, ‘that’s all right I’ll just get some love from Graham!’ who’s his one year old brother…and then he’ll come runnin, ‘no I want love, don’t give all your kisses and hugs away!!’.....’I’m going to give them all away if you don’t come and get them right now’. Paul’s saying I’m gonna give all your blessings away, because the Macedonian they’ve been approached about the offering, and they stepped up and stepped out and man, God poured out his grace in an extreme way. A little healthy competition. Churches all across America, do this with you all the time. They do. There are pastors that I get emails from all the time who stand up and tell their congregations what God is doing at Elevation in order to motivate their congregations to say if God can do it there, he can do it here too."

So is God doing some incredible things in Wilmington? Absolutely. Are we learning from others that God is using in our city? Very much so. Are we seeking to reach Wilmington for Christ whatever it takes? On our way there.