Being Real and Effective
I’m so glad that God has clled so many to the Summit who have n incredible heart and place to be real and effective in our community.
Obviously he earthquakes in Haiti are a devastating tragedy. I cannot even imagine what the people and families of that country are going through today. The third stated purpose of The Summit is to Impact our World. If the only world we impacted were our own, there is no doubt we would be quite inwardly focus and we wouldn’t accomplish much. Our desire is not only to Impact Knoxville and its surrounding communities, but we want to reach out as far as God would allow us. The Summit doesn’t have the resources to go into Haiti or setup a website or even send a huge team down there, but we can partner with a long standing and trusted organization that can. I’m proud that we have chosen to partner with Samaitan’s Purse. You can either go directly to there website or you can click here, watch the video and then decide to support their efforts. Thank you for taking the time to care.
On another note, Make sure you block off April 3 & 4, 2010 on your calendar! The Summit is going to BLOW THE KNOXVILLE COMMUNITY AWAY WITH OUR EASTER WEEKEND EVENTS! What we have planned for Easter Sunday is incredible and what we are going to do on Saturday, April 3rd, WILL BE THE BIGGEST Easter event Knoxville has ever been a part of! Watch for it!
Bryan
Living Your Faith Out Loud
I pray you are having an awesome week. Today has been a gorgeous day! The warm-up is on! And The Summit is gearing-up for an incredible year!
First of all is our first ever Men’s Encounter weekend. Our theme is “Transformed” as each one of us steps before the cross and discovers God’s fresh encounter for our lives. Men! You do NOT want to miss this weekend. It is going to be a powerful time of getting real with God as we seek His purpose for our lives. The cost for the whole weekend is only $30 (scholarships are available) and if you haven’t signed up yet you can click here or do so on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
Christmas Today Video
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If you missed this Sunday @ The Summit here’s a segment we really enjoyed. Okay, probably the most pointless thing we did this Christmas, but it was fun! Enjoy & Merry Christmas!
One Incredible Life at a Time!
When The Summit had its first worship experience in the parking lot of the Highland View shopping center, I have to admit that I questioned myself repeatedly. I wondered if I had just sealed the impending fate of our young church. I wondered if I had made the fateful decision that would be the beginning of the end for The Summit. After all, who would come to church in a parking lot? It was our 1 year anniversary and for all intents and purposes our first year had gone pretty well.
If our goal was to launch large we did okay with 167 at our first service. Not HUGE, but not small either. If our goal was to grow quickly, we didn’t do too bad there either. We had 266 for our Easter Service (5 1/2 months old) and we had 165 members added to the church. If our goal was to see people cross that line from hell into Heaven, well, we experienced 71 professions of faith and 43 baptisms! Not a bad church planters report at all…if I do say so myself. Those are all good goals to have, especially seeing people step into that relationship with Christ. After all, we strive in all we do to help others to step back into a relationship with Jesus Christ. That is why we exist! But there was something more, something bigger we felt we were called to… Read the rest of this entry »
The Summit Karaoke Christmas!
My Favorite Time of the Year! Christmas and the New Year! I Love the Holidays! But before you know it…they’re here, and gone again!
This Sunday @ The Summit we are going to celebrate a “Wonderful Life” as I talk about what God wants to give you this Christmas! And we are going to harness all the pomp, celebration and wonder that Christmas has to offer.
We are going to bring you Summit…Karaoke Style! with fun, flavor and celebration. You may experience a surprise performance by our Christmas Elvis; an unforgettable presentation by Santa himself; a toy collection by the Summit Kidz and of course a powerful and complete expression of what Christmas is really all about…Jesus!
This Sunday will be church as you’ve never experienced it before! This is a great week to invite those around you that don’t do church. Sunday @ 10 AM we will worship again at The Karaoke Cafe’. We will enjoy the fun and pageantry of the season, but this will also be one of the most intimate and powerful WORSHIP experiences of the year as we honor the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ!
By the way, this Christmas will only be blue if we spend it without you!
Be Happy!
Bryan & Dana
Karaoke/Summit Church Monday Morning Flashback
- Meeting at The Karaoke Cafe’ was far better than what I had hoped far.
- We are still on Chapman Highway and we now have yet another sign to announce our location (see pic to the left) Update: I just noticed the sign on the ground, the LED sign on the Karaoke board and the billboard in the back ground! That’s 3 in 1 spot. Go God!.
- I didn’t see it coming but we now have an office, an Impact Center under construction and an awesome venue in the middle of our community. Three different places to Impact our World.
- Our attendance was up yesterday! It’s funny how people appreciate the indoors when its 29 degrees outside, lol.
- The venue was a perfect fit for our church! It allowed us to express ourselves the way we have always envisioned so that we might reach people who are far from God and help them back into a relationship with Him.
- I can’t think of a better place, during our construction phase, to help REDEFINE the way our community thinks about God and His people.
- We had more Volunteers yesterday than ever. They are absolutely awesome and the most committed group anywhere!
- I talked about giving yesterday, NOT money. It was received in an awesome way and The Summit is really moving from selfishness to sacrifice in monster steps!
- We had 8 first time guests yesterday. That is awesome! Since we have 102,000+ within 10 miles of our church, we have a LOT more to get the message to.
- I love our new friendship with Norbert Stovall and His wife Debbie who own Big Mama’s Karaoke Cafe’.
- I saw our leadership united, prepared and excited to do this Kingdom Outreach yesterday. We know we have royally ticked Satan off and he is not happy about the coming revival. However, we are ready and pumped out of our minds to kick Satan in the face every time he raises his ugly head against the Kingdom of God! Go God!
I will see you as we continue to work on our new building and I can’t wait to see what God encounters He has prepared for us this week!
Be Happy!
Bryan
The Summit Will NOT Meet in Parking Lot
Wow! There is not a day that goes by that God doesn’t amaze me with His direction and provision for my life.
As you may know, my heart has been very heavy this week as to where The Summit would meet with much colder weather approaching. You guys have been incredibly committed to meet outdoors, but I knew we must find a place where we could be safe and comfortable as we continued to build our new building and reach people for Christ.
I awoke this morning asking God to show me where that place was and asked Him to do it in a way that there would be no doubt. HOLY SMOKE! He did that in a huge way!
I am proud to announce that the Summit Church will now be meeting at “Big Mama’s Karaoke Cafe” on Sundays @ 10 AM until our new Impact Center is complete! Their facilities offer us all the amenities that we value and they have plenty of room for our nursery/preschool and Summit Kidz ministries!
I had the pleasure of meeting the owner, Norbert Stovall, who has vowed to partner with the Summit in anyway possible. He has committed to donate lighting, sound and video equipment and supplies for our new building and wants to partner financially to help us complete the center.
His heart was so overwhelmed with our meeting today, that he and his wife Debbie, who don’t have a church home, were eager and excited to join us Sunday morning! I love “God Encounters” and “God Meetings”. I love to meet new friends and I especially love when someone has a personal revival right in front of my eyes.
The Karaoke Cafe’ will allow us to continue to show our community that “There’s More” and will give us a great home to grow as we build. I can’t wait to see you Sunday @ 10 AM. Spread the word!
Be Happy!
Pastor Bryan
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Are You Still Passionately Following Him?
The Summit Church of Seymour TN
This was 1 year ago! Are you still where God wants you to be? Are we still this passionate?
Be Blessed!
How to have Explosive Church Growth?
How does a church grow from 100 to thousands in just a few years (Acts 2 Church, Jerusalem; Elevation, NC; New Spring, SC; The Village, TX and there are more)?
Does it study the more than 10,000 books that have been written about church growth? Do the pastors just mirror or duplicate what these other leaders have done? Maybe the leadership needs to attend the myriad of catalyst events, church growth conferences & seminars? Or maybe it is just the luck of the straw or the much more superior abilities and talents that the other great leaders possess and it just can’t be manufactured or duplicated. Maybe Scott Hodge, Perry Noble, Steven Furtick, Matt Candler, and others are much more cool than other pastors. Or they have a website after their own name (another Brian McKnight got mine). Maybe they had more money, more advertising, more people, more talent, more resources, better breaks, bigger buildings, deeper networks, talented staff, right times, right friends, or were just plain lucky. Read the rest of this entry »
