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Heaven or Hell? Are they real places? What happens in Heaven and Hell? How do I know where I am headed? How can I be sure?

People are asking questions about eternity and the afterlife all the time, and in our new series Reservations, we are going to answer them! So bring your friends and family, and especially those you know who are asking these kinds of eternal questions because it could change their future forever!

GCTV Midtown meets Sundays @ Tallahassee Little Theater @ 929 and 1101.

GCTV West meets Sundays @ 1101. West is currently in the Entourage series.

Go to www.genesischurch.tv for all the info and directions...

See U this Sunday at Genesis! It is going to be an awesome day!

Sunday, September 7th @ 11:01 AM will be the first Preview Experience at our West Campus. We are presently building the launch team and holding experiences Sundays at the same time, but the 7th will be a sneak peak into what West will be. Invite friends, family and neighbors on the West side of Tally to check it out! West is located on Blountstown HWY directly behind TCC.

Yesterday we announced the merger between GenesisChurch.TV and Encounter Community Church.  Ben Liles, Lead Pastor of ECC and his team have decided to become the second campus of GCTV on the West side of Tallahassee.  ECC will now be known as GCTV West!  Launch date is set for Sunday, September 7th!  This summer will be an exciting time of building service teams, developing community groups, renovating the campus and preparing for this new multi-site venture.  We are thrilled to join forces and become one church in two locations!  The announcement video will posted soon!  If you live on the West side of Tally or love the whole new church process, we invite you to link up now with GCTV West.  GCTV West is located on Blountstown Highway directly behind TCC.  Check it out and spread the word that GCTV has a new campus starting this fall!

We have a new GenesisChurch.TV One Prayer Blog.  You can click on the emblem to your right to access it.  Please read daily over the next four weeks and post your prayers and comments as we intercede for the global church!  The One Prayer series starts this week at Genesis...Leon High 929 or 1101 AM!  Don't miss it! 

Craig Groeschel from LifeChurch.TV has come up with an incredible idea to unite the body of Christ in the month of June.  One Prayer is a 4 week series combining churches all over the world, dozens of speakers, and hundreds of thousands of believers to pray one strategic prayer for the Church.  The prayer goes like this..."God make us ______."  Each church can pick from a line up of speakers and topics to show during the 4 week series.  Go to the One Prayer blog to check out the details.  GenesisChurch.TV will be participating in this historic moment in church history.  I challenge every pastor to be part of this movement!

Tallahassee Democrat ran an awesome article in Sunday's paper about our new INKED series that kicked off this past Easter Sunday, which by the way was a great day for Genesis - we broke an attendance record!  If you didn't get a chance to pick one up or you don't live in Tally and want to check it out...click here! This series wasn't supposed to be controversial in any way, just a unique way to talk about the permanence of God's love and how it impacts our worldview.  Don't get hung up on the tattoo deal...it is just a method. No one is headed to hell because of body art, and we aren't telling people to go get a tat if you love Jesus; we are simply using an art form to present the message of Jesus to those that might hear it through a different ear.  So lets be astounded by the bunch of people who said yes to Jesus Sunday and a little less worried about things of little significance...know Christ...make Him known...using anything short of sin to make it happen...

Well we always try to be a little creative each week in our presentation of the gospel, but this Easter, we are taking it to a whole new level!  Inked is about the love of God being tattooed on our hearts and how his love impacts our everyday relationships.  Tattoos and Easter - different, but I think we are going to make it work!  Each week we will have a short video from people like Micah and Matt (at left) who tell the real story behind the body art.  These are life changing stories about God, love, and significant relationships in their lives.  Don't miss Easter and invite your unbelieving friends and family to this non-typical Easter presentation...hopefully they will leave marked by his love and life.

Sunday begins our Seek Week leading up to Easter Sunday and our exciting new series on love and relationships entitled INKED.  It should be one of the most creative series we've done so far - I may even get a tattoo myself!  Seek Week is a week of corporate prayer and fasting.  We set this time aside each year to focus on our relationship with Christ, remember his passion, and clarify the work he wants to do in and through our lives.  The Annex will be open at lunch for "come and go" prayer from 1130 AM to 130 PM Monday through Thursday, and then we'll end our Seek Week on Good Friday with a Prayer Experience at 7 PM.  I hope many GCers will participate in this time of dedication and consecration.  We invite you to do a partial or full fast.  If you can't fast food or certain foods, you can fast TV, internet, or anything you personally enjoy.  When we push back the plate or give up something tangible, it gives us some focused time to pray, read Scripture, reflect, listen to worship music, and simply deepen our walk with Christ.  We think there is no better time than the Passion week to do this.  So join us for Seek Week and the Good Friday Prayer Experience and watch God do something significant in your life and our church!

This Thursday and Friday the Church of God is hosting the Engage 21 conference in Cleveland, TN.  Ed Stetzer will be the keynote speaker for the event.  I think his work on the missional church is outstanding and believe he will provide a great contextualization for what we are trying to accomplish. This conference is the beginning step of bridging a huge gap between generational ministry.  It is time that we stop talking about style of ministry, what type of music we sing and clothes we wear, and get passionate about reaching unchurched people in creative, innovative, and loving ways - no matter what form that takes.  My hope and prayer is that Engage 21 will produce healthy and effective dialog between local leaders and institutional leaders as we all attempt to navigate the constant changes of ministry and culture and build the Kingdom of God.  I am actually looking forward to the next couple of days and trying to stay optimistic that there is a chance change is on the horizon for the good of us all, young and old, traditional and emerging and everyone in between. Oh by the way, I get to tell the amazing story of what God has done at Genesis on Friday morning.  So if you are in Cleveland this week lets connect during the conference.

Brian

Worry.  I think it is one of the biggest time wasters in our lives.  It blocks creativity, causes brain fog, distracts from active problem solving, and causes unnecessary stress.  If you are like me in any way, a first-born, Type A, analytical, driven, recovering perfectionist then you'll understand this blog more than others.  Worry.  It is what we do best sometimes.  When life is outcome based and you are results oriented and live by a calendar and measure and value your time, worry sometimes can be a big enemy.  The reason...no one sees you doing it, and yet it is taking your time and your life like nothing else.  Worry takes your sleep, your rest, your ability for your body to recover for the next day of productivity.  Worry makes you agitated and irritable.  Worry causes you to be a half-listener because your brain is preoccupied with other stuff so you don't take in all the info in the moment and end up with a bad case of selective hearing.  Worry keeps you disengaged from really living life in the moment.  I think we often say we are praying, but really we are just worrying about stuff and God popped into the thought cycle!  Real prayer keeps us from allowing worry to hang around.  Jesus tells us not to worry, knowing full well we will anyway, but he reminds us today has enough challenges to overcome, we don't have to take on more than even exist.  Sometimes worry causes us to try to solve problems we don't have, but think we will have, and we end up not even solving the problems we actually do have.  If you followed that...I am proud!  What I mean is...we spend more time worrying about a future we honestly know little if nothing about instead of dealing with what is in front of us.  So if you are a chronic worry-er...stop it.  Why?  Jesus said so!  Plus it steals your time and your life.