Greater Things with T.J. McCormick

I just got done speaking at Bayside Community Church this weekend. We had some great services. I talked about time and how it is passing us by so quickly. I talked about using your time in a way that will not make you like the foolish man in Luke 12:16-21 but to use your time on earth to be rich towards God. Being rich towards God comes down to two things, Loving God and Loving People. The services were awesome and we saw over 50 people give their lives to Christ and live for what matters most in life. I love pastoring people at Bayside and I am going to miss them dearly when we leave to go start Coastal Community Church in Ft. Lauderdale at the end of May.

I am getting ready to speak this weekend at Bayside Community Church. I am pretty excited and nervous about sharing because I am going to be hitting the subject TIME. As in, what are we doing with our lives. Are we living for ourself and our desires or are we living for God’s. Really it is about living a life that is rich towards God and what does that look like. So far what I have come up with is that it looks like it takes time. I know that God is going to rock some peoples lives with this message and I just want to be able to communicate it effectively so that hearts will be focused on living a life for Him.

I made a huge mistake last night to the twitter world when I thought that I was in a direct response to Perry Noble the pastor of Newspring Church in South Carolina. I accidentally tweeted to everyone following me that I would love to meet up on Friday and that I am launching a new church in 2009. I immediately got quite a few responses from individuals from my church including my pastor with that the response “that was a big mess up.” So for the next 2 hours I was trying to clean up the mess I had made and get the information off the web which I eventually figured out how to do. I hope that I did not do to much damage to the plan to keep this silent from our church. I have kept it this way for almost a year now and only have till the end of May before Shayla and I leave. Please pray the everyone who saw the tweet will keep it on the down low and give me some grace on this one.

I have started to work on our business plan for the church. This is a lot harder than I thought it would be. There is a lot of thinking, planning, creative communication and research involved in this process. Some of these things I really excel in and others are a huge struggle for me. I know that this is a very important part of the process in planting a church and raising the capital necessary to have a great launch. Please be praying for me while I venture into this project over the next two weeks. I know that without God showing up and helping me to be creative and innovative in how to present the vision and plan in written form that I am in trouble.

Today I contracted a company in FTL to design the logo for Coastal Community Church. I am so excited about this project because it really sets the tone for our look as a church. In the next two weeks I will be putting up some different logo designs for thoughts and input as to the look we should have. I am so stoked to see what this company comes up with for our design.