In September of 1999, we launched worship at the Soundside Campus of Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church with 590 worshipers the first Sunday. We worked Charles Arn’s 1990’s check-list for how to start a new worship service as if it were Bible, and we had a good result. September 16, 1999 remains one of the most thrilling days of my whole life. We did a lot of things right and a few things wrong, but God was very good – and we added hundreds of new folks to active participation in an organized Christian faith community in the year that followed.
