Know that whole, "You might be a redneck if ..." ("You think 'loading the dishwasher' means getting your wife drunk" "You were shooting pool when any of your kids was born") schtick?
Well, today I had a, "You might have a great church if ..." kind of morning:
- You might have a great church if ... you've been gone two weeks and you find out one of the new people coming is the owner and premiere artist at the hot local tatoo shop.
- You might have a great church if ... you find out that the guy started coming because one of his customers invited him to come see her get baptized at Forefront.
- You might have a great church if ... your service opens with your band absolutely rocking "King Nothing" by Metallica.
- You might have a great church if ... you play an interactive, audience participation game called, "Name That King!" which has people screaming, "King Kong!" "Hank Hill!" "Michael Jackson!" "I have no idea!"
- You have a time where Children's Ministry volunteers are honored and the importance of raising up the next generation of radical love God, love people Christians is highlighted.
- You might have a great church if your sermon bumper/introduction video looks like this:
- You might have a great church if ... you preach a "kick people in the teeth" kind of message about making Jesus the king of our lives, and how He won't allow us to follow Him (and we can't call ourselves followers) because God opposes the proud ... and then seeing people take off the crowns they had been given on the way in, and hearing people sniffling in the prayer time that followed.
- You might have a great church if ... so many people help with breakdown that you end up getting done and leaving way early.
So ... we can check off all those today. The best thing is that Jesus was totally help up as being great and the only thing worth giving our lives to - which He is. And anything great about our church is totally because of Him.
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good points on your blog commented about you to me. I have a blog at www.scottrdavis.blogspot.com
Your name is in the comment section of my blog under the piece abiding at the space station. May you be blessed in how you do ministry. Jesus was radical in the beginning making water out of wine and knocking over the money changers table. He never did things in a conventional way. that is why salvation is so radical. Peace. enjoy my blog. I will look at yours. peace again Scott
Hey Vince, I just wanted to tell you that we at Del Sol Church's Fire Youth Ministry here in El Paso, Texas spent some time praying for you and for Virginia this morning.
I don't know if you or any Forefront people were affected by the tornadoes, but we've been praying for you and I hope you're doing well.
Thank you Ariel, that's awesome. The tornadoes hit just a little away from where we're at so we weren't affected directly, but it's definitely our immediate neighbors...
Nice, dude! Metallica on the east side of the state... Ozzy on the west side... and both to the glory of Jesus. Priceless...
You might be a great church if....
You could pray about Convergence Church's first meeting tonight! Jeff Hogan (our lead planter - www.convergence244.blogspot.com) flew in last night from Ohio for this meeting. There are many attending who have expressed interest in becoming core members, plus a couple of elders from the church hubby and I are currently members of. Tonight we hope to share our point and process - "Live, Love, Serve" and explain how others can be a part of this ministry. If anyone reading this comment would pray for us, we would be extremely grateful and humbled!
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