Last week, I talked about how we can get so caught up in working for Christ that we don’t realize that we are actually getting in the way of what God wants to accomplish. If you missed that post, you can read it by clicking here.
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Against my wife’s advice, I signed up for our church’s softball team this year. I played baseball and some other sports in high school and even played some church softball in the past without embarrassing myself too badly. What I didn’t realize until I looked it up recently was that the last time I picked up a glove was nine years ago! In that time, there appears to be a greater distance between my brain knowing what I need my body to do and my body being able to carry out those orders. One of the ways this manifests itself is in my running. I was joking with some spectators at the last game that I run like Fred Flintstone – my feet start moving wildly before I ever start actually moving forward.
I’m very excited to tell you about a ministry I will be participating in this summer called “Starting Point: Building Your Band.” Our team at Pleasant Garden Baptist will be teaching rising 5th through 9th graders the basics of band instruments, vocals, and tech and give them the opportunity to actually perform in a band within a time frame of four days. For those that have followed the blog for a while, this is basically the camp that we’ve done in Jamaica the last two summers – we’ve brought it home to our American church. We’ve condensed it as far as number of days in order to cut costs, and it will be a challenge to see if we can get everything done that we want to accomplish. But I am very much looking forward to it!
No matter how blessed we are, there are going to be days that are crappy. That’s just part of life. I feel like sometimes that not only do I not know the answers to some problems that I’m going through; I don’t even know what the questions are! Everybody has days or weeks or even longer periods like this, as much as we Christians try sometimes to just put on a happy face and not let anyone know that we are hurting.
This coming Wednesday, April 20th, I have the opportunity to lead worship outside of my own church at a local Baptist church that is having a revival service. For those that don’t know what a revival service is, it usually is a service that takes place over several consecutive days with the goal of reviving, or firing up, or re-energizing a congregation. Revivals also usually feature an evangelical focus – either a renewed commission for Christians to reach the lost, or a focus on bringing the lost to the revival service to be saved. Wednesday night is the opening night for this particular revival and I am so excited about starting things off for this church in worship.