Pastor steven furtick greater9/11/2023 ![]() ![]() “Saying God is not a God of endless rules and restrictions but a God of endless permissions and promises.” Even under klieg lights and on days when he preaches for a solid hour, bouncing around and calling out and pumping his arms, he sweats very little. “We’re flippin’ the script a little bit in this series,” Furtick, 33, says to start the second sermon, strolling back and forth across the stage. “People who’ve been divorced, who’ve had abortions, who struggle with addiction,” he’d shouted, pointing to an eight-foot prop onstage of the familiar carnival ride sign You must be this tall to ride. During the first sermon a week ago, he told the crowd that God saw all of them as worthy and wanted them to come to Him no matter where they were in their lives. The sermon this morning is the second in a series titled (This Is Your) Permission Slip, designed to show how the laws of Christianity don’t take away freedom but give. With worship team members leading, songs fill every service.Įlevation Church’s stated mission is to reach people far from God and see them raised to life in Christ. Scripture unfurls on giant screens as Furtick reads 2 Corinthians 1:19: “For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us-by me and Silas and Timothy-was not ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ but in Him it has always been ‘Yes.’ ”Įlevation isn’t quiet and it isn’t boring. The face of his black and orange watch is as wide as his wrist. His black T-shirt hugs his muscled shoulders, the slight V-neck in front revealing that he’s shaved the top of his chest. His look this week includes light stone-colored pants and formal white loafers. He is in great spirits, tan and relaxed and teasing the crowd. The text Live from our Blakeney location appears on the screen.įurtick walks behind the lectern, a silver Star Trek-looking item marked not with a cross but with the church’s caret-like logo (^), which stands for elevating Christ and appears on thousands of orange bumper stickers affixed to North and South Carolina license plates. Video of him streams into uptown and six other packed regional locations. He’s on a stage at the church’s Blakeney campus, about 20 miles away in a medical office park near a Target. ![]() Onstage in the McGlohon Theater, a 700-seat venue in Spirit Square, young women wearing skinny jeans and cool cardigans and pendant necklaces sing, as musicians play cello and electric guitar.Īs the music quiets down and auditorium lights brighten, all eyes fix on the big screens above the stage. Inside, past a dish of complimentary earplugs, reassuring ushers with badges and flashlights guide latecomers through the darkness to the last dozen open seats. Outside Elevation Church’s uptown campus on a Sunday morning in July, big, orange flags reading “The Best Is Yet to Come” flap above city sidewalks. S teven Furtick takes the stage his favorite way, striding in a half-stroll, half-hop, not-dance, bellowing out a lyric here and there, eyes pinched shut as the music blasts. ![]()
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