Sunday Quick Hits

I haven’t been giving much time to doing full worship confessionals over the last little while and I’m not about to break that streak tonight. So hear are my Sunday quick hits from today -

• Sunday is pretty much the only day that I don’t curse the alarm going off a 6:00 AM – I get jazzed about helping to make Sunday morning happen
• We are continuing our “Grow UP!” series – if you thought it wasn’t possible to pull nine week of gooood content out of nine verses in 2 Peter, Earl Marshall has proven you wrong
• We called a MAJOR audible between our 9:00 & 11:00 services and completely changed the order of service – I mean completely changed
• The biggest reason for that was we had people sitting & listening for too long at our 9:00 service – keeping people engaged, active and compelled is key on Sunday morning
• I wish someone would help visiting missionaries understand what congregations want to hear from them
• I think we need to be clearer with people who are giving ministry updates on what will fire up our people
• We baptized a high school girl today – beautiful example of INVEST and INVITE being lived out in relationship, now seeing this girl IGNITE and IMPACT – it is a beautiful thing
• INVEST, INVITE, IGNITE, IMPACT – our 4 I’s of ministry strategy helping us to achieve our vision to Transform Our Region, Transform our world because of our mission to glorify God by making disciples who love God completely and others sacrificially
• We only did two songs in our 11:00 service and – guess what! – it was still engaging, authentic worship
• Don’t believe the lie that you need 6 songs and 25 minutes in a worship package to get people to a place of worship – use every moment of your worship set properly
• I had this mental conversation during one of the verses in our 11:00 service – “Oh. You’re here today? Well, that’s interesting. And you came with her? Wow. Very cool. God, You know what’s going on – make it happen.”
• Songs we did this morning – Unchanging by Chris Tomlin, Here I Am To Worship by Tim Hughes, It Is Well (9:00 only) and then just a verse/chorus meditation of May The Words by Tim Hughes