Sunday June 27th de-brief

The what is it? Game went well. John did a great job being our host with the most. And our contestants, Jeff, Michelle, and Derrick, did a fabulous job hamming it up. The off the cuff comments from John were a riot (Pastor Devon said not to choose you, Lod, because you can't handle the truth and flames licking the outside of the building were priceless). I believe the point was well taken that relativism has permeated through our culture and we must stand for truth in every season.

One thing that should be on our list for the future is get our paticipants out of North Texas time and in the building ready to go with rehearsals at 10:00 rather than 10:15. We had barely 10 minutes with the entire group before it was time to start church. While the set was set up such that each person had their script and much of what was said was prompted by John, in the future that may not be the case, so lets set a high bar so we are not winging everything.

I think the caramels during the sermon were great (Elijah on Mount Caramel was the topic and knowing truth) and the point of sometimes truth is not sweet was very well taken by the congregation. But what I did see is that many people need to work on their hand/eye coordination. Perhaps Wii sports should be a sermon illustration activity one of these days. Oh well, I don't think anyone was too gravely injured by a flying caramel, and it certainly got everyone's attention.

Sunday's worship celebration was good. The format of uninterrupted (except by meet and greet) flow of musical worship and then announcements/offering and ITP seemed to progress better than the orders of the past couple of weeks. As far as this coming week I do not have my handy-dandy notebook with me so I do not know what the ITP is, so at this point I am not certain what this weeks worship order will look like, but stay tuned because I am going to try to get to it this evening.

So good job everyone. Let's build on what we as individuals learned from this week and make our next ITP even better.

Grace and Peace,

Lod