Post Service

Its Monday morning. Im trying to get a few things wrapped up here before we leave for Florida for a vacation. I blogged yesterday before service, so I thought I'd follow up.

We had a great service yesterday. Pretty decent crowd. Yesterday was one of those days that everything I said and did was really led by God's spirit. I challenged our volunteers to grow spiritually this summer, not to take a break. I had them pray over our facility and plant seeds this summer that will lead to great things in the Fall.

Then I challenged our congregation to the same things. Asking people to sacrifice during the summer to grow the church isn't the most comfortable thing to do, but I really felt like God was leading me to do it. I want to create a culture that sacrificially loves the community we are in and want to see them engaged with God at any cost.

I thought about all the flak President Bush got when the video clip came out of him talking about the war, and then teeing of on a round of golf. It felt weird and insincere. I think the average church is just like that sometimes. We talk a big game on Sunday morning for an hour or two, then it's off to do whatever the heck we feel like doing the rest of the time with no regard to the hurting people around us. I don't feel good about that, and I don't want to be average.