Monday Night Rewind
Well i had an incredible opportunity last night that kept me from being able to post last night.. more of that later.
Yesterday morning was fun for me.
I am loving having the tables in place for several reasons…
I like watching people getting to know other people… talking…laughing
I love watching 27 tables full of people who are praying for and with each other.
I love the energy that sitting at tables has created both while I am speaking and while we are singing!
It seems to really be a great way to gather together in our context at Renovation.
Community is a growing value for us at Renovation… building community with those who are gathering together every week and building relationships with other churches, organizations, institutions within our NW community…
Of course it’s easy to say community is a high value but unless you take steps to create opportunities to develop community then it never really gets any significant traction.
I also want to say that Nick and I have noticed that being at tables has allowed us collectively to be more engaged when we are singing!
How cool was it yesterday to sing in spanish! Nick is such a talented young man… he just keeps blowing me away with his heart and talent! I also love his humble spirit!
Being on a church staff is not easy… let me just say that!
Anytime that I have brought somebody onto a ministry team in a full time position… without fail they cannot believe the amount of work that has to go on behind the scenes.
I believe that there needs to be a sense that God has placed a calling on a person’s life… sometimes that is a life-long calling and sometimes it is for a season. I believe Nick has that calling on his life.
When we launched Elmwood Nick had just graduated from High School for crying out loud!
He was going to work part time to help us run sound and maybe sing occasionally… well that changed pretty quickly as Nick’s talent and hard work began to have an immediate impact at Elmwood. He also is our graphic artist which he had never done before…
He was not even dating and now he has a wonderful helpmate in Bethany who is a godly young lady in her own right!
I am blessed… as are we all at Renovation that God has Nick and Bethany assigned to us for this season of our lives. He is doing a great job of leading and developing a greater appetite for worshipping our King.
Can’t wait for our first Thanksgiving Community Dinner… we have about 250 signed up not counting those from our community that will just walk up!
Oh about last night… I got a chance to go see the Boss. I have to admit I have never been a big Bruce fan… until I saw him in concert last night and now I “get it” unfortunately it could have been their last show together. They are getting old but boy what a show… 3 1/2 hours of straight hard kicking music. I have never heard a band so tight or so good.
I did feel a little weird… 19,000 people all singing (except me… I only knew a few songs) every word to every song for 3 1/2 hours… the most impressive worship environment I have yet to experience… all of these people not only sang the songs with great passion they had hand motions with many of the songs… I felt like the dude who has never been to “church” who walks in and sees and hears all of these people singing and lifting their hands… a good reminder to give people a chance to “get it” before we expect them to engage!
