RIDING GIANTS
Anatomy of a Wave
June 9, 2013
Ed Young
There are times in life when we discover the essence of who we really are. There are moments when we gain a clear understanding of our purpose. It is these times we hope to capture, because this is when we realize the momentum we truly have.
In this series, Pastor Ed Young unleashes the truth about God’s plan for our lives that few dare to dream. And he shows us that the momentum in our lives is just the beginning of what is in store, because the journey ahead is greater than the path we have ridden to this point!
Transcript
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Today we’re talking about Riding Giants, riding waves. You know, summer is a time of waves. It’s a time where we think about water, we think about those fun things. So for the next several weeks we’re talking about riding giants. Hopefully you’ve worn your beach wear if you can. Again, subtle beach wear, if you feel me.
I do want to welcome everybody at our different environments. We have campuses all over the place. You know, several years ago we were having 20-or-so thousand people attending our main campus here in gorgeous Grapevine and we were having some serious egress and ingress issues. So we asked ourselves, OK, do we build the American Airlines Center with 20,000 seats? “Starting at guard… #12… Ed Young!” Do we do that? Or do we leverage technology and disperse and plant churches all over everywhere? So we decided to go into technology. It was a very good financial move and now we have campuses, if you’re brand new, in Downtown Dallas, Downtown Fort Worth, Plano, Allaso Ranch, one soon to be opened in the Southlake/Keller area. We have two in London that are kicking off. London, England, that is, not London, Texas. London, England. In October we had one in Columbia, South Carolina, and two in MIA-Miami. So we’re one church in many locations. And what’s weird about it is, I mean we have a big group today – It’s raining here in Grapevine, thanks for showing up.
You know, people say that Dallas is a churched area. You gotta be crazy. Dallas is not a churched area. No one, absolutely no one is on the freeways, no one’s moving around on Sunday morning. Have you noticed that? We’re not a churched area. Yeah, we’re a … I call it the churched/unchurched area, Dallas/Fort Worth. Most of us in Dallas/Fort Worth have been inoculated with enough Christianity not to catch the real disease. That’s true. That’s why we’re talking about waves. God works in waves.
