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MR

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Posted: March 31st, 2011 under Leadership, Videos.
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I was so excited to read this announcement today at church. Our Elders, Board and Leadership are excited to see what God does with this….

We at SouthView Community Church are excited to announce a step of faith that we believe God is leading us to take.  It is in our heart to form a “strategic partnership” with Slow Burn Church (located in Franklin, TN).  Though our ministries will remain as two separate churches, our partnership will allow us to stand together as one functioning unit for the betterment of both individual entities.  Slow Burn, under the direction of Pastor Clint Thomas, will serve as our Friday night expression of the SouthView ministry.  In return SouthView Community Church will serve as a Sunday morning expression of Slow Burn.

The focus of our Sunday morning ministry at Southview will be one of community and relational development through love-based teachings that center around the practical steps of everyday Christian living.  We believe this will create an increasing environment for the lost to be reached, the wounded to be healed, and the family of Jesus Christ to be solidified through love.  We are excited to partner with them and as well as have them enjoy the benefits of spiritual mothers and fathers, life groups, support groups, community outreach, as well as joining in with our weekly worship service.

In return, Slow Burn Church will serve as the Friday night expression of Southview Community Church.  Their role of support to the Church of Southview will be one of specified training and ministry release.  As we serve their team to help complete the needs of their local body, they will in addition bring a strengthened sense of assignment recognition, mission focus, empowerment, and release.  With every successful army base, there is a much needed recreation center, cafeteria, training rooms, and deployment center. Slow Burn aims to be a place of specific training of gifts as well as a deployment to active duty for both the body of Southview C.C. as well as the Slow Burn Church.

As two individual churches, we choose to stand together as one in order to better advance the Kingdom of God and to destroy the works of darkness. Our mission is to form “Unity in our Diversity.” Though neither Pastor Clint nor myself have seen this step done in the same measures that we are taking, we are eager to allow God to do a new thing in and around our ministries by the power of the Holy Spirit for the sake of the cause of King Jesus.

This makes perfect sense to us and we can’t wait to see how it will look as we function as a Kingdom based church instead of an individual church based mentality. It’s all to further His work and equip people to live a life a power and love.

MR

Posted: March 20th, 2011 under Check This Out, Church info, Leadership.
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Last Sunday, I had a woman come to church asking for “Mark”. She had only visited our church a few weeks ago (invited by a friend) and we never got a chance to meet. Infact, I’m not sure she even knew my name. But on Saturday night she had a dream.

In her dream God told her to go back to SouthView and ask to speak to “Mark”. So she did. On Sunday morning, as I’m getting ready to fire up the worship team and get this service started, Mike, our head usher comes to tell me this lady wants to speak to me. First thought was, what does she want to sell me or how much money is she going to ask for. A typical reply in this day and age when a pastor is “sought out” by someone who is not a regular in our church.

As I talked to her, she told me she needed to come today and speak to me…she didn’t have a word for me, but literally thought I had something to tell her. Whoa….God didn’t give me a “heads up” on this one. So I told her, let’s talk after the service.

After the service was over, here was this lady that wanted to know why God told her to come today. As I talked and prayed over her, immediately God spoke to me the words to speak to her. In fact it was exactly what she was going through as well as an encouragement that she had found the church and spiritual family she had been looking for. She started crying and I truly believe was blown away at the length at which God went to show her how much He loves her. Talk about LOVE…

I’m still a little blown away by it all. That God would put me on a stranger’s heart so that I could be a vessel that He would use to show her love. It’s a perfect example of John 12:32

³² “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

God used me and our church, to prove Himself to this woman and bring her closer to Him. He knew her secrets of pain and loneliness in her heart. He heard and showed her where to go to get encouragement. Sunday’s service was off the wall, amazing. God was all over the service, including the 5 minutes before we started, when this lady came to seek more of God from a servant like me.

I’m blessed and extremely humbled that He uses me. I can’t imagine living a life where this doesn’t happen all the time.
MR

Posted: March 8th, 2011 under Church info, Leadership, Life Stuff.
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Let me take the background and you lead…

MR

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Posted: March 7th, 2011 under Videos.
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Check out this POST.

I’m excited. It’s amazing how God plants you somewhere with a future purpose in mind. I believe this city is going to experience a huge outpouring of God’s favor and anointing. It’s because of godly churches and families that have prayed and helped each other. It’s because of our passion to see people changed for the better. For people to experience God’s glory. Now God is bringing the people to US!! What an honor to be one of the churches here to be part of this.

This is a time for the church to prepare to be the hope that people are looking for. This town will be growing quickly, but we must rise up to the challenge to be the love to those that are coming. God let your glory and power fall on us!

This is an exciting time and an exciting area to be living in!

MR

Posted: March 2nd, 2011 under Culture/Society, Life Stuff.
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