Sunday Night Reflections

Some thoughts on today’s service:

Goofs – We started the morning with our worship guides in the trash can because they had the wrong date on them (my fault).  They were ultimately rescued, but we looked a little foolish.  I am glad though that we worship at a church that allows some mistakes.  That makes us real.  As the leader, I’m always striving to do the best I possibly can.  But I’m pretty sure I never make it through a day without a mistake or two..(heck, I’m not sure I make it out of the first hour most days).  We never want to be sloppy and accept mediocre, but perfection at the sake of heart and passion is cold and sterile.  I’ll take a few goofs along the way. 

Spirit – I’m not sure exactly what it is, but man, our response has been great during our music services all year long.  There is power and energy and joy.  I love hearing people SING!  What’s really cool is how the spirit in the body encourages the musicians on the platform.  It’s kind of like a crowd cheering on the team.  They feed on each other.  And in a spiritual setting, it raises the spiritual temperature in great ways. 

Heat – The truth is that our building is really cool…in more ways than one.  It’s been hard to heat.  But this morning, the temp was really comfortable.  Which is remarkable since it was in single digits outside (that has to be the result of sin).  We owe that to the hard work of Jeff H. who crawled through ducts for over an hour looking for ways to redirect the air flow.  I never cease to be amazed at the hard work that so many of you do behind the scenes.

Children’s Area – Totally dug the sign that Tim & Brooke made for traffic flow.  It was inspired by similar signs at Starbucks.  How can you argue with that as a source of inspiration?

Quote – Coach Greer did a great job with the message this morning as we broke into a new series – “In the Fire”.  It’s a great follow-up to the last series of pursuing “something more and going B.I.G.”.  I particularly liked the quote that he shared this morning:

• “Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.”

Wow, what a great insight.  It reminds of another quote that says the “opportunity often comes disguised as hard work”.  While we are often waiting and hoping for good things to fall in our laps, we fail to see the real opportunities to step out in faith and go B.I.G. because it looks a little too challenging.  But God gives us opportunities, not ease.  So here’s to a week of bad hunting for clovers, and great fortune at finding opportunities.