In his book IT author and pastor Craig Groeshel, states that even though it is difficult to describe what IT is, you can tell when a church has IT and when they do not. In a sense IT is God’s hand of favor. You can just sense that God is moving. People are being saved. Lives are being transformed. The church is energized.
I do not know why this is the case, but FOTP has IT. I know this it is not because of me or anything I have done. For reasons unknown, God has chosen to bless the work going on at FOTP Grapevine.
This summer has been amazing! We had 206 in attendance Sunday compared to 140 the same time last year. This Sunday we will baptize at least 7 people (mostly adults). Each day this week I have had someone contact me about baptism so we may have more by the end of the week.
We are moving to the new Dallas Road location on September 12. We fully expect God to take us to a new level this fall.
Things are progressing on the purchase of property. We are praying that the city will give us a special use permit at their regularly scheduled meeting in September.
In the meantime, we want to pray that God will continue to bless FOTP Grapevine and FOTP in general. Our new Haslett campus which just launched a few weeks ago had over 200 people this last Sunday as well.
All I know is that I am blessed to be a part of IT all.