STOKED!

What an awesome day!!!!! The sun was out! I was able to toss the softball around with my daughter and didn't even need a coat!!! Here is another reason I'm totally fired up: we have some really awesome and amazing people that are coming to church.....like every single one of them!!!! And the craziest part of it all is this: Prior October 21, 2007 I that most of them even existed! That is the beauty of planting a church!

Meeting new people and hearing that people are encouraged and challenged and to see them come back and bring their friends, is just plain incredible!!!! What a blast!!!!

I love meeting new people and seeing them open their life up to the grand design God has for their life. Like a new guy that has been coming for the past couple of weeks and saying 'this is just what have been needing.' Like the people who's kids love coming and aren't in any hurry to leave. Or like the new high schoolers who have been coming and wanting to know what 'following Jesus' is all about. I'm sorry, but you can't beat the vibe of that! Totally stoking!!!!

God's way of living is over the top....it's overflowing...uncontainable. And when people sink their teeth into the reality that God is for them, well, it just plain stokes them up! They get stoked! I get stoked!!! Instant combustion baby!!!!!!

So, I'm jazzed about the awesome things God is doing at Design! He wants to do it everywhere. God is into people. It was His idea!

Get stoked about a God who loves you and cares about you and has your best interest at heart. He wants you to have a life that will get you stoked!!!! Over-the-top living!

MTC!
Mark