Wow...

Currently, I, along with the rest of the Senior Management Team of Charter Oak Church, am attending the DRIVE Conference at North Point Community Church in Atlanta Georgia. To quote Andy Stanley, the host of this conference, "DRIVE is about letting North Point's staff pour out everything they know about ministry into us so that we may go and pour it into others."

I tell you all of that to get to the real point of letting you know that Session 1 kicked off with one of the most incredible times of worship that I've ever experienced. Imagine standing shoulder to shoulder in a church that is packed like sardines with 2,300 ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ...and then imagine singing this song with them. I swear to you, the crowd was singing so loudly and passionately that I couldn't hear the vocals coming through the sound system. There were blacks, whites, latinos, europeans, males, females, people of all ages...all sinners saved by amazing grace...

As long as I live, I'll never forget what that sounded like. I'm convinced that in those moments I heard the roar of Heaven...

I've said it a thousand times, and I'll say it thousands more...it's not average grace that God extends to us in Jesus. It's not adequate grace...not even abundant grace...no, no, no...it's amazing grace! Grace that is sufficient...grace enough for you...grace that saved a wretch like me...

It is my hope that His amazing grace and glorious peace invade your day today.
Hallelujah
Amen