Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

There is a shifting of the tectonic plates happening right now. I have no idea what evotional.com will become, but I think it's morphing. I think the weekly evotional (email version of my weekend messages) will continue to be the bread and butter. I pour myself into the evotionals because I think it's a way of helping NCCers get a double dose as well as supplementing the spiritual diets of people who don't go to NCC. I think the most encouraging thing is the way so many people forward the evotionals to friends who are unchurched or dechurched. The evotional is a spiritual vitamin supplement.

I think the blog will continue to be huge part of evotional.com. But I have a feeling that it will become more than the evotional and blog. We've begun podcasting or godcasting. So we now have an audio evotional or evotional godcast. I think we might venture into webcasting and broadcasting when the coffeehouse opens. I can envision everything from evotional productions to evotional apparel. Not sure how or when those ideas will become realities. But I think God ideas have a way of becoming more than we ever imagined (Ephesians 3:20). I think every evolution of evotional.com is an expression of the passions and dreams God has given me to help people reach their God-given potential.

One of my prayer mantras is "help me help people." I pray that all the time as I go into meetings or prepare to preach. I think evotional.com has the potential to help alot of people in alot of ways.

My favorite plant is the moso bamboo. It's grown in the far east. When you plant it, there is no visible growth for five years. But it's forming miles of roots under the surface. When it finally breaks through the surface of the ground it can grow up to a foot and a half per day. And it grows to a height of ninety feet. It's like Jack and Beanstalk. I think that's what is happening with evotional.com.