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As I’ve been thinking more and more about leading a missional community through Revolution Church Sacramento next year, I’ve also had thoughts about video preaching as part of what we do. Coinciding with these thoughts was a blog post by Perry Noble that reinforced his position that video teaching honors God and connects with people.

When we did our first month of preview services to share our vision with the members of our mother church, it was video preaching for 3 weeks, with me preaching 1 week. We participated in the One Prayer with LifeChurch.tv which many of you know about already. I was so totally blown away by the quality of the preaching from Perry Noble and Steven Furtick that I was hooked. I mean, I think I can be a pretty funny guy, but usually I evoke a laugh or two during a message while Noble just raised the roof and kept it up the whole 30 minutes. The guy seems like he isn’t even trying, yet he causes us to fire on several emotions in just one message. All this and he wasn’t even in the building! How can a guy in South Carolina talking about eating big, buttery biscuits and people believing or not believing in the power of Christ connect so well with us here in California? I don’t know how or why, but I just know what I saw and how people responded and it was amazing and incredible. Pastor Furtick is another one of those guys that doesn’t seem like he is trying, yet he can convey passion about watching an ice cube in such a way that you never thought possible all through the power of Christ in his life and his love for seeing people hear the gospel and come to know the saving grace of Christ. I was teary-eyed during the last half of his message and again, he wasn’t even in the building!

Can a guy like Noble or Furtick cause things to be stirred up here in Sacramento through video preaching? I think they could. As Revolution Church Sacramento takes shape and launches next year, we are looking to connect with a younger generation for Saturday and/or Sunday evening service. Mostly singles and young couples. However, could we partner with a great visionary preacher like a Pastor Noble or Pastor Furtick (or a Craig Groeschel or Ed Young, Jr. or…) and provide a gathering for families on Sunday mornings and see the kingdom grow even more? Could being missional and putting our faith into practice and sharing the love of Christ with the world be the glue that binds us together, even though we have two different worship styles, with two different meeting times, and two different demographics? I’m beginning to think we could. I’m feeling like the work that needs to be done here in Sacramento is far greater than what I could do even on my best days, and that partnering with another ministry with someone that can lead the way through their preaching and teaching while we work to connect people into service could honor God hugely. Who says that multiple services on a weekend must be the same exact message with the same exact preacher every time?

Maybe this is just another one of those dreams too big for the moment or my abilities. Could be that my mind is wandering and this isn’t what my thoughts should be on these days. However, I just can’t help but feel like this is worth some prayer and discussion and seeing what God would have me do here. My preaching doesn’t really translate well to video, but I’ve seen others with the gift for it and know that it’s being used to make a big impact on people in awesome ways. Just consider me more than a little intrigued at this point.

I invite your prayers and thoughts on this.

Even though our official launch date isn’t until next Easter, while doing a google search for “revolution church” it turns out that our website is #14 after being at a high of #6 last week. It seems that Revolution Church is becoming a popular name for churches so all the domain names with “revolution” have been registered already so I went with revsacramento.com. It’s taught that having the name in the domain helps search engine placement, but looks like we’re an exception, which is awesome!

I hope and pray that as we see momentum build and our website become a social networking tool for our community that God will use it for his glory and that many will come to know Christ personally through the outreach of Revolution Church Sacramento.

Well, although we have been in operation for exactly one preview service as a brand new work of God here in Sacramento, CA named Revolution Church Sacramento, I figured I’d take a cue from Steven Furtick and Gary Lamb and offer a personalized lead-in video for your services if you have chosen to use my video message for the One Prayer project. Yep, I’m the Asian guy with the big head praying for God to “Make Us Uncomfortable.”

Just submit your request as a post to this blog or email me with:

1. some info on your church/ministry
2. the name (and title) of your senior pastor
3. any relevant things in your vision or mission that you’d like me to know
4. title of your church’s one prayer message for this series (if applicable)

…and have it to me by Friday, June 20th. I’ll shoot & edit the videos and have them available for download by Monday, June 23rd. If you happen to need the lead-in video for June 22nd, just have your information to me by Tuesday the 17th and I’ll have the video for you to download on the 18th.

Seeing all the power behind the other 62 video messages submitted for the One Prayer project, I’m not assuming anyone has chosen to use my message on “Make Us Uncomfortable,” but just in case you did it would be my honor to be able to personalize the message for you as we stand in unity as ONE