Creative Scribble

Yesterday might have just been the best day I’ve had since the day I got married! Seriously…it was as if nothing could go wrong! Maybe I’ve just been watching too many TV preachers telling me that life is all roses with God on your side. It felt like it yesterday…until I woke up today.

• Kicked off a new series yesterday called New Thru 30. Trying to go through the entire New Testament as a church in 30 days!
• The first sermon was about the central issue of the Gospels: who is Jesus?
• We learned that getting close on this answer isn’t close enough.
• The only answer that cuts it is that He is the Christ – the one way to God.
• Worship was once again the best it has been yet. The band was incredible and the choir (aka the congregation!) was phenomenal.
• At one point Dillan backed off his mic during “Glory to God” and listening to the congregation sing the line “Take my life and let it be all for you and for your glory” had me balling like baby on the front row.
• I love worshipping with the OneLifers!!!
• There were lots of them yesterday too. It was our biggest “normal” attendance yet with 212 (normal meaning no special event to attract out of towners like baptism, etc.).
• If someone told me when we launched that we would have more than 200 people in less than four months I would have checked for narcotics. But God is bigger than my plans!
• What’s even crazier is that was with lots of roads still snow covered and temperatures below 20 when the morning began. Knoxvillians don’t like that! But they came anyway.
• Better than that, two people decided they wanted to do more than just get close and gave their lives to Christ!
• So I left church pumped up and went to THE game. Tennessee vs. #1 Kansas in basketball.
• Of course, the Vols pulled the shocker of the 2009-2010 season and beat up the Jayhawks!
• I couldn’t believe it. I was starting to think maybe there was something to the whole health, wealth, and prosperity message you can see from the TV preachers.
• But then I woke up this morning. Sick and horse. No voice at all. Not even close.
• Oh well, back to the reality of the...umm...what's it called? oh yeah, Bible!
• But it was still a dang good day! Can’t WAIT for next week. We get our college students back and have our first ever baby dedication. Going to be AWESOME!!!