Bobby Welch is the former Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Daytona Beach, Florida. He is a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and the founder of the FAITH evangelism program.  

Tonight, he told a lot of stories in typical Bobby Welch style, but here are a few things I wrote down.

-”A lost person is set up to run a certain race and Hell and the Devil will do all they can to help him run that way.”

-”You can’t live like the world and be intimately connected to God” 

-”I can live off monkey meat!”  (I won’t try to explain the illustration, but he did say this!)

-”You cannot help it if you’re driving down the road and a naked woman jumps in front of you…that’s not sin…but if you drive around the block 5 or 6 times…”

-”There is a predictable progression to sin’s power over us.”

Can’t wait until tomorrow morning to hear Brad Powell!! 

This week, we are privileged to have some of the most sought after speakers in America, and we want to encourage you to join the hundreds of pastors that will be coming to this conference and experience what we believe will be an unbelievable few days of worship and teaching.

The Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evening sessions begin at 6:30 p.m., and the Tuesday and Wednesday morning sessions begin at 9:30 a.m. A detailed schedule is available here.

And let me just say one thing about tonight: Don’t be late…the first ten to fifteen minutes are going to be amazing!

A few things I saw / heard this morning:

·         Our parking lot was packed this morning…cars and people everywhere.

·         Mark and the music team sounded great this morning

·         The “what’s happening video” was great…if you were in the 2^nd service we had to cut it due to time…it will be uploaded on our website tonight.

·         Happy 21^st Anniversary to our pastor…I can’t believe pastor as put up with some of you for 21 years.

·         Great job by our Pre-school ministry for pulling together a big Sunday morning and night.

·         Sujo John spoke this morning and here are a few things he said:

o   “God does great things in our life when we are will to be crushed”

o   Minutes before the first plane hit the world trade center North tower, where he was working, Sujo sent an email to a friend that said “I really feel God wants me to do more and step out in faith.”

o   “God reads emails” – great moment

o   It took him over an hour to go down 81 flights of stairs.

o   He passed many firemen around the 41^st floor…sobering thought.

o   Wife was in the other tower…lived for a few hours thinking she was dead.

·         Tonight was a great night of worship…if you missed it then…you missed it!

·         Can’t wait until tomorrow night intro for the conference…should be powerful

I’ve been reading Nehemiah lately and I noticed a phrase in chapter 1, verse 11, that Nehemiah makes about himself.

He simply says, “I was cupbearer to the king.”

I’ve skipped over this phrase so many times, but I tried not to this time. And when I did, it became much more interesting.

It’s almost like Nehemiah wants everyone who reads his story to know that he wasn’t super intelligent, incredibly strong, or anything else like that.

He was just a cupbearer.

And yet, that is exactly where God wanted Him to be.

God leveraged his position as a servant in the king’s palace to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem.

Now, here is that application: God has you exactly where He wants you as well. No matter who you are or where you work, God has you right where He wants you.

It may not seem like it. It may not feel like it. But God is at work right where you are.

And who knows, maybe God has a big time project for you just like He had for Nehemiah!

Below is a list of some of the upcoming events on the Southside Calendar.   

October 19- AM Service (Guest Speaker, Sujo John, World Trade Center Survivor)

October 19- Special PM Service at 6:00 (Worship Concert) 

October 20-22-  Southwide Conference (Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday Night at 6:30;  Tuesday and Wednesday Morning at 9:30)  Click here for more details.  

October 28- Fall Festival from 6-9 PMThis is a free event and we expect somewhere around 3,000 people to show up again this year.  (Additionally, you can help us by bringing in a bag of candy or two to the Welcome Center.)

November 9-11- Missions Conference 

December 13-14- Christmas Musical (Saturday Night at 5 & 7 PM; Sunday Night at 6 PM)

I wanted to give everyone a peek into our Fantasy Football season so far as it relates to staff…and some bias commentary.

·         Dennis is 5-0…solid team…not flashy but solid.  Think his “solid” team will hit some bumps and I will catch him soon.

·         Billy is 3-2…lost 2 games by a total of 12 pts against the undefeated teams.  I should destroy everyone the rest of the year.

·         Charlie is 2-3…had a terrible draft (way to many Oakland Raiders)…claims that he about to get “hot.”  His offense is 9^th best of 12…again, way too many Raiders.

·         Matt is 5-0…his defense is the best and has been getting lots of pts with a little known RB.  I see his future production dropping, but still enough to win his division.

·         Drew is 3-2…looking at his team I wonder how in the world he has even won a game…he has a strange and scrappy team…however; he is in Matt’s division so the playoffs are wishful thinking.

·         Chris Clark is 2-3…has a great team on paper (probably best overall draft) but has not shown up in the game…yet…I expect him to make a late push for the wildcard spot.

·         The others in the league are selected church members who are worthy enough to be in our league…for now.