• God has a sense of humor.
• This was a holiday weekend which should have meant low attendance, no energy, and a Sunday to “re-group” getting ready for next week.
• WRONG!
• God showed us Who is really in charge.
• We had our highest attendance since EASTER! That’s right – Easter. The holiday people are SUPPOSED to come to church. On LABOR DAY! The holiday people are supposed to be on the lake!
• Another high was first time guests. We had 34 fill out cards! WHERE DID THEY ALL COME FROM?!
• They came because lives are being changed by the Gospel and THAT is contagious! OneLifers – keep sharing your faith stories and keep inviting people to come worship with you!
• Speaking of worship, it was amazing. We also got to celebrate communion together, which is always one of my favorite things we do.
• I took this Sunday as a chance to clear up our beliefs about baptism during the sermon.
• The sermon had been planned for months, but in just the past couple of weeks I’ve had multiple conversations with people wondering why we do baptism the way we do it.
• So we answered that question and the question of what is the significance of baptism?
• The main significance is going public with your faith. And next week, we have 20 people going public through baptism!
• Let me answer somebody’s question now: “Why does he talk about numbers so much in this blog?”
• Because they matter! Just like I talk about the 60,000 people within 5-miles of Powell High School who are unchurched and need Jesus!
• Next Sunday is a day I’ve been looking forward to for months. OneLife turns 1-year old!
• We’ll be celebrating all that God has done over the past year in ONE combined service at 10 a.m.
• It’s going to be PACKED so you better come early to get a good seat.
• Or better, come early to volunteer and serve all of our guests who will be there to hear about us thanking Jesus.
• Or even better, get up early, go pick up a friend, and bring them with you to hear about Jesus getting the victory.
• It’s going to be incredible! See you there – at 10 am ONLY!!!

• Best news from the day, another person gave their life to Christ!
• We wrapped up a worship series that was a good change of pace, focussing on what it means to worship.
• The main thing God wants from us is for us to be true worshippers.
• If the Samaritan woman had been from Powell in 2010 when she met Jesus, she would have asked “Some say we should worship with piano, organ, and choir robes. That crazy church at the high school says they worship with guitars, drums, and skinny jeans. Which is right?!”
• Jesus would answer: “My Father seeks true worshippers who worship in spirit and truth.”
• In other words – the method doesn’t matter! It’s the heart of the worshipper that matters.
• The way true worshippers worship is with awe, abandonment, and intimacy.
• We wrapped up the service worshipping with all three thanks to a song that has hit home with our church – With Everything. Look it up on iTunes and download it today!
• This coming weekend we celebrate communion and talk about the importance of baptism.
• And then next weekend we celebrate one year at OneLife with nearly 20 people being baptized!!!
• Start inviting your friends and family NOW for next week. One HUGE service at 10 a.m. DO NOT MISS IT!!!
• Sunday was also our second Partnership Class. Between the two we had somewhere around 80 people join OneLife!
• We also had some great conversation after each of the classes as people wrestled with their salvation stories, baptism experience, and other spiritual issues. Some great ministry happened!
• Up next for our church is the start of OneLife Communities. Get more info or sign up today! www.onelifeknox.com/communities

Wow. That word sums up this week at OneLife. I believe it was our best Sunday worship experience yet. Here’s why…

• The energy in each of the services was through the roof.
• We started a two-week series on worship, so we reversed our order a bit.
• We started with just a couple of songs, jumped into the sermon, and then wrapped up with an incredible worship set.
• We responded through worship to the following questions: Who is God and what has He done?
• The answer to that question will drive us to worship.
• We cleared up the fact that when we come to worship, we should come worshipping. And we don’t come as an audience to watch a performance. Instead, we are all the performers!
• Check out the video of the sermon here: www.onelifeknox.com/watchonline
• Sometimes things aren’t planned that I say. This week sounded like a middle school playground with “poo” “holy snot” and quoting a friend’s experience when inviting a very unchurched person to church. Haven’t gotten any hateful emails yet, so I guess nobody was offended!
• Our college students were back in full force and so were a lot of our families. It showed as attendance was at its highest in more than three months!
• Best of all, I saw lots of second time guests who came for the first time last week.
• We also had several college freshmen come early and jump right in volunteering on their first Sunday of college. Incredible!
• Our first partnership classes are this week and we get to talk about worship again this weekend. It’s keeping me busy but I’m loving every second of it.
• Our staff is doing an incredible job leading each ministry and building leaders along the way.
• The proof is in the pudding as volunteerism continues to grow and grow. On top of that, people are “getting it.”
• Kydon talked about our culture of valuing rest and creating a culture where no one is anonymous during our VIP meeting. He got a call today from a volunteer wanting to make sure Kydon was being taken care of and getting a chance to rest. That’s a huge win!
• This is only the beginning, OneLife! The future is bright because HIS is the VICTORY! Bring someone with you and let’s experience it together this Sunday!

• We talked again this week about how OneLife is “Growing Up” – we’re almost 1 year old!
• This week we talked about growing up by getting into life-changing community with other believers.
• We do that at OneLife through groups of 8-12 adults called Communities.
• Like the church in Rome (Romans 1:7-12), we will mutually encourage each other’s faith and “bridge the gap” when we hear and tell our faith stories to each other.
• Communities kick-off on September 19! Group leaders met for the first time Sunday afternoon…can’t wait to see how God uses them to lead OneLife to the next level!
• Want to find out more info or let us know you’re interested in finding a community? Watch the sermon from Sunday and then visit www.onelifeknox.com/communities.
• It was good to have a lot of our college students back this week and a lot of their families, too. Should have them all back in full force next week.
• On Saturday we “Served the City” by helping move in new UT students. Let’s just say it was about 1,000 degrees and way too many stairs in that dorm!
• But we had an incredible group of volunteers make it happen and represent Jesus in a great way.
• This week we start a two-week study on worship. After this series, you hopefully won’t think of worship the same anymore!
• Share your faith story with someone this week and bring ‘em with you to Powell HS at 10 or 11:30 am!

This Sunday we tackled the issues of partnership – not membership – but partnership. Semantics, you say? Nooooooo.

• Membership implies that I have rights.
• I can be member of the gym and when the treadmill stops working, I have a right to tell the gym to fix it.
• Partnership implies ownership and responsibility.
• As an owner, when my house has something mess up I have a responsibility to fix it.
• The Church doesn’t need more members. It needs partners.
• Up until this point in the life of our church, we haven’t formalized any commitment to the local church.
• But now we are “Growing Up” and it is necessary!
• So toward the end of August we will be hosting several gatherings where OneLife Partnerships will be defined even more and formalized.
• If you would like to be one of our first ever partners and missed out on the service yesterday, check out www.onelifeknox.com/partner and email pastor@onelifeknox.com for more info.
• We had a few of our college students back this week. There should be more next Sunday and then all of them the next Sunday. That’s exciting!
• Speaking of college students, we announce our efforts to reach out to the UT campus in the coming year. One tangible project that is just around the corner is dorm move-in day this Saturday. We’ve been assigned to Reese Hall and will be helping freshmen guys move in.
• Want more info on helping us Saturday afternoon? Email volunteer@onelifeknox.com.
• Next week is part two of “Growing Up” where we’ll be talking about OneLife Communities that fire up in September.
• It’s going to be  a HUGE fall for us! Don’t miss it.