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At Home in Nacogdoches

4. June 2009johnQ0 comments

Nacogdoches, Texas - I can’t even begin to tell you how excited we are about living in this wonderful city.  Everyone we’ve met has been kind and friendly.  Starting a church can be a difficult and lonely adventure, but God has provided for us.  We have new friends, our children have new friends, and we have a church that God is beginning to grow.  We will be hold church services in our home, until we out grow it.  If you’ve been following along and wondering when you should come check us out, now is a good time.  Everything is beginning to come together.  Childcare is available each Sunday night.  On Thursdays we have Bible Study at Java Jacks.  We are currently studying “Experiencing God, Knowing and Doing the Will of God“.

Aren’t we all looking for a little Validation?

4. March 2009johnQ0 comments


What a great video. Don’t miss how it ends.

Our Booth at The Pineywoods Fair

21. October 2008johnQComments Off

Click this link to view the PowerPoint from the Fair.  It will start automatically and loop until you press the Esc Button.

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A Light In Darkness

2. October 2008johnQComments Off

Jesus is teaching Nicodemus we he says these often overlooked words “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”  John 3:19-21 

If we are to be “like Christ” shouldn’t we be light as well?  If we are light, shouldn’t we be around some darkness?

I think when we are living like we are called to live we will find there are those who are drawn to the light in us, but also those who are repelled from us.  It makes our life much more simple to think that those who are looking for light will be drawn to us.  But the problem becomes how does your light shine when you are around darkness.  There are lots of lights, but when I think about being drawn to a light I think of a warm camp fire in the distance on a cold night.  A light that draws you in out of the darkness… out of the cold.  A relaxed feeling of hanging out around a camp fire, should be the relationship into which we call others.

How has your experience with Christians been?  A warm light that drew you closer for investagation, or a flame that made you run away?

Let me know your thoughts, John Quinton

Asking Why?

9. August 2008johnQComments Off
A long time ago, I started seeing God do things in my life.  It wasn’t long before I started asking God to do things, to handle things, to take care of things for me.  And you know what… He did.  When God wanted me to leave Calvary Baptist Church and my home town of Beaumont, Texas and move to Fort Worth to attend Southwestern Seminary I asked him for some specific things.  One of the things was for my wife to find a job which she did in about a week.  Another thing was to sell our house in Beaumont, He took care of it in less than a week without even involving a realtor.  When you see God’s hand moving it is a powerful and encouraging thing.   
Then there’s today…  God has called our family to Nacogdoches, Texas to start a church.  For the last three months we’ve been making all the last improvements to our house to make it a place we would sell to God. (See Colossians 3:23)  And now we wait…  Well not just waiting, we are starting to make bi-monthly trips to Nac. to begin the process of starting a church 3 1/2 hours away, but we’re waiting. We’re waiting for Karen to heal, for the house to sell, to find out what house we will live in, to find out what schools the kids will be attending, to see God’s hand moving in a powerful and encouraging way.  The tempting thing is to ask, “Why?”  Why me? Why are things going so slow, Why can’t we be there right now?  Why don’t you move like you did the last time God?  But “Why?” is always the wrong question.  It’s a question that turns the focus on us and not on God.  The right question is “What?”  God what are you up too?  What are you doing in my life with this delay?  What are you doing in someone else’s life that makes this delay necessary?  When we’re in the middle of waiting we never hear the answer to the “why?” question.  Sometimes we have to wait for the answer to the “what?” question too?  So… As soon as I hear what God is up to, I’ll let you know.  Until then we are waiting patiently to see God’s hand moving us in that powerful and encouraging way that He does.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Revolution Church Journey

7. June 2008johnQComments Off
Welcome to the new Revolution Church web site and blog. We are in the process of adding a lot of new features, but the main goal of this site is to connect with our friends and keep you up to date with all of the wonderful things God is doing through this new ministry.
One of the first things people ask me about Revolution Church is how we determined the location of Nacogdoches, TX.  When my wife and I felt that God had confirmed the call to plant a church we started praying about where we would locate this new church plant.  There was a real freedom in knowing that we could go anywhere.  We prayed about the region we currently live in, but had a real sense that God was leading us elsewhere.  As we started talking and praying what we wanted for our family we thought about a smaller community, a place that would be great to raise our kids, and a place we could get our arms around.  There were a few places in east Texas that we considered and Nacogdoches was one of them.  Because most church plants take place with numbers that indicate a fast growing area with high income level (I wonder why?) all of the east Texas towns were ruled out and we began to pray about places like Austin and San Francisco.  Then on February the 15th I met the friend of a friend who happened to be attending Seminary.  As we discussed church planting, she asked where we were going to start a church.  When I told her I didn’t know and that we really needed to know soon, she asked me where I was from.  When I told her Southeast Texas, she said that she was from East Texas and named a town.  When I told her I didn’t know where that was, she told me that is was near Nacogdoches and then said “That’s where you need to plant a church!”  When I ask her why, she told me about the need for something new and different and gave me several reasons why it was a good place to start a church.  That next Monday I attended the Evolve conference in Cumming GA and began earnestly praying about Nacogdoches.  Each night in my hotel room I prayed, wrote in my journal and asking God for direction.  The last keynote speaker for the conference was Bil Cornelius who gave the most amazing and encouraging talk to church planters.  You can listen to it here.  One of the things that he said was, as God was revealing that he was to plant a church in Corpus Christi, TX was that the numbers didn’t add up, it wasn’t a wealthy population and it didn’t rate high on anyone’s list.  He said you have to go there put your feet on the ground and let God tell you if it’s the place or not.  When I returned from Georgia on Wednesday I made plans to go to Nacogdoches on Friday.  While I was there, God confirmed my calling by guiding me to individuals who not only needed us, but who where excited about the possibility of the vision God had given me.  While there have been many more moments of confirmation this is where it all began.