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Sunday Nite (April 14, 2013)

by mike p on April 15, 2013 in Sunday Nites with No comments

FAQ Week 2 is in the books. Incredible day filled with worship, tension, questions, conviction, understanding and most importantly:

HOPE

Wouldn’t it be terrible to go to church and hear that you and your life is in violation of God’s expectations and NOT HAVE someone to tell us how God can fix us and give us steps to do so?

I had the opportunity to preach at and experience both Vertical Locations yesterday. I hope that you were with us – if you weren’t here’s what you missed:

  • On Week 2 of FAQ we explored shacking up, gambling and why God allows bad things to happen to good people.
  • This week Donnie had the opportunity to put ME on the hot seat (revenge?). His questions for me: Paying taxes; Does God promise He won’t place more on me than I can handle; Why do some people raise their hands during songs; Is interracial marriage  prohibited in the Bible and is it ok to fantasize about your spouse?

    Will post tomorrow.

  • This was not an easy message to deliver.  But it’s like I said LIVE in both services, please understand that we are FOR you. If you have issues in any of the subjects we are dealing with we want to help you to take your next step with Jesus.

My man DK Lemmons (https://www.facebook.com/DK.Lemmons) had some great summaries of my message so the following are his quotes:

  •  Is gambling a sin? Bible doesn’t significantly prohibits. It’s not the game, but the manner in which we play it.
  • Why do we raise hands? Psalms 63:4 calls for us to raise our hands in praise!!
  • Interracial marriage? Most take Deut. out of context. It talks about interbelief not race. It is our duty not to chase after foreign gods.
  • Bad things 2 good people? No magical answer, God is God and we are not. Misunderstanding that God will keep bad things from happening.
  • Bible never said life will be easy after salvation. John 16:33- u will have hardship, but Christ has overcome the world! Ex: Book of Job
  • Why Bad things happen? 1.) Sin. 2.) God tests us. 3.) Satan (destroyer). 4.) Free Will. Our choice a against God.
  • God is always just, and sovereign!! He is not always fair. If he did, he would treat us as our sins deserve. How great is His love for us!!
Great notes DK!
  • I believe that the Cohabitation Ceremony video was a hit. I know people were cracking up at both locations where i was LIVE. Shoutout to Sam and Beth Powers for being great sports and playing our couple having the Shacking Up Ceremony. Yes, they are married. And yes, Beth is pregnant.

    The Video Shoot

  • Yes, she was pregnant previous to the shooting of this video (grin)
  • I certainly hope that people saw our heart in that…. we love people and are FOR them. We want to help them take the next step with Jesus.
  • Vertical Worship was great at Lumberton!!! Jon Lloyd leading with Gail, Christoph and Ethan on drums. Today was Gary Floyd’s 1st time on guitar for us at VC (he has played bass before). Gary is one of my favorite local guitarists from back in the day, possibly the best in the area!!! We played together back when I was 18… it is SO INCREDIBLE to see people I once played with and grew up learning music from using that talent to bring glory to Jesus.!!!

    Jon, Gail and Gary

  • Lumberton’s cafe environment is incredible for this series! I will try to get a picture for next week! I love our creative people at Vertical Church.
  • Lumberton VIP was rockin’ yesterday!!! They make Vertical, “vertical”.
  • When I walked into Vertical Bladen for the 1st time since launch day to preach at the 11am service i wanted to cry. No kidding! Some of our staff and leaders over there have been with us since day 1 of Vertical and I miss them so. We discussed this after the service. We understand that God wanted us to do this, and agree that it is totally worth it. But it doesn’t take away the fact that you miss seeing those people every day.
  • BTW… Vertical Bladen knocking it out of the park! Parking team was awesome driving up, VIP team, blowing it out, check in, cafe!!! Production and audio had it going on and the stage looked absolutely incredible.
  • Great crowd at BCC. You can tell that we are all getting to know each other over there. It really is just like when we started the 1st time in Lumberton. I predict that starting THIS COMING WEEKEND things are going to another level. 1st Baptism service at Vertical Bladen. I think i heard 7 people currently scheduled to be baptized. It’s ON baby!!!

    me at BCC – 11am service

  • Vertical Worship Bladen was on fire!!! Alison lead worship along with Amber Davis (1st time i believe), Josh on guitar, John A on acoustic, Robby Gaddy on bass (bass?!?) and Andrew on drums.
  • The music was en fuego at both locations: The Time has Come, Never Once and one of my all time favorites, “Always”. Lumberton threw in another favorite of mine, “The Anthem” right before my message.
  • Thankful to Vertical Worship Director Rhonda Lovin for the way that she brings it all together with the team! I can’t imagine how hard it is to schedule 2 locations to the level we do. WOW!!! And you thought she was just a great singer (grin).

  • VERGE

    Tonight we had VERGE at Candy Sue’s Downtown. VERGE is our partnership class and the only way a person can join Vertical Church. We do VERGE approximately 3 times per year. Congratulations to our new Vertical Partners.

  • We will be doing a Bladen County VERGE on May 19th! You can sign up to attend Bladen VERGE right here.
  • So excited for our Church Plant, FuZion Church Raeford, as they had an incredible day yesterday!!!

Our First Vertical Bladen Baptisms…

by mike p on April 11, 2013 in Baptism, Vertical Stories with 3 Comments

…are right around the corner.

One of my favorite things about Vertical Church is the way that we do baptisms. The stories – they are so real and raw… real people having a real experience with a real God Who is changing their lives. Your next opportunity to be baptized is Sunday, April 21st.

Easter Baptism Recap from Vertical Church on Vimeo.

 

So my question to you is have you been baptized SINCE you believed? Baptism is the 1st step as a new believer! It’s a person saying to the world, “Yes!! I Believe that Jesus Christ has saved me and is changing my heart and life!” If you’ve not been baptized SINCE you believed and would like to be scheduled for baptism or would like more information let us know HERE. 

Your Chance to join Vertical is this Sunday

by mike p on April 10, 2013 in Verge with No comments

People often ask, “how does a person join Vertical Church?” If you’ve attended you know that there is no time during our service where we allow people to join. We believe joining a church is more than saying “I want to join” – we believe you should know exactly what it means to join Vertical Church.  With this thought in mind there are 2 things that you should know about joining VC:

  1. People who join Vertical are not members, they are partners. The way we see it, “members” have rights but partners have a responsibility to the organization. We’re not looking for members who will fill the seats on Sunday mornings – we’re looking for partners who believe in our mission and vision and are ready to join the team to help people who don’t like church meet God.
  2. There is only one way that a person can become a Vertical partner. That process is called:

Verge (vʉrj) noun

  1. the edge, brink, or margin (of something): also used figuratively: the verge of the forest, on the verge of hysteria

Some of you are on the VERGE of a decision that will change your life forever! This meeting is a time for us to share who we are and what we’re about and what partnership at Vertical looks like. You will have the opportunity to meet and talk with our staff as well as ask any questions you may have about Vertical Church.

Our next VERGE is this Sunday night, April 14th from 5:00 – 7:00 pm at Candy Sues Downtown – Dinner will be provided. I’m always looking forward to sharing a meal with new friends.

PLEASE NOTE: No children 5th grade and under will be able to attend. 

Sign up here. (and don’t forget, we will not have childcare – this is an adult only event.)

BTW, VERTICAL BLADEN ATTENDEES: you are welcome to attend this Verge but we have one coming up in Bladen County in May. Keep your eyes open.

FAQ Week 1 – The Hot Seat

by mike p on April 9, 2013 in Message Series with No comments

This is from Week One of FAQ. We’ll have “Hot Seat” segments in all 4 weeks!

Hot Seat – FAQ Week 1 from Vertical Church on Vimeo.

Sunday Nite (on a Monday Morning from Florida)

by mike p on April 8, 2013 in Sunday Nites with No comments

It sounds like we had an incredibly eventful day yesterday at Vertical!! I am currently preparing to leave Orlando – our daughter Madison competed in the US Spirit National Cheer Championships. So proud of our girls!

I could tell by the online chatter that we were having a killer day at Vertical Church!!! So thankful for the awesome way that Donnie kicked off the FAQ series with some heavy, HEAVY subjects. Our heart as a church is to lovingly present what the Bible teaches about issues that those outside the church see as controversial. We want to do this in the Spirit of Jesus. The Spirit of Jesus is ALWAYS reconciliation:

[11] Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience…. [17] Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. [18] All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; [19] that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. [20] Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [21] For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:11,17-21 ESV)

This is ALWAYS our intention. Love. Reconciliation. Truth. Remembering that while WE were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • Great service this morning. The current series, FAQs, is one that is greatly needed by the Christian Church so that we can address these issues both Biblically and IN LOVE. Donnie, you did a fantastic job in prefacing and explaining the Bible’s answers to these often controversial issues.

Here are some thoughts from Bladen location pastor, Joey Autry about yesterday:

Really awesome day. Love love love hearing what Jesus is doing in people’s lives!

  • Great after service convos for our team with people taking next steps
  • VTeams are just phenoms right now. Love the heart and passion from our volunteers. Thankful for Sim Asbil and his leadership
  • Great message from DP. Truly tackled tough subjects with grace and love of Christ – Truth in love? Heard that somewhere before
  • Sweet acoustic set our worship team brought today
  • BMed’s team (stage design) created great environment today
  • VKidz leaders had awesome time leading kids to learn about Jesus. In particular, great pics from our Waumba Land team having fun on jumphouse
  • Thankful that teens & nowgens are serving all over Vertical Church
  • Baptism for Bladen (April 21st) is going to be insane! List growing every week
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