Hey Element Church! Man, we had fun today. Did church in a whole new way. Today was the final Sunday of Untouchables and we took 11 questions that were turned in and tried answering them in a fun and creative way. Here are my ruminations on the day.
— After worship we set up the stage for our own “Tonight Show” flavor in order to take on these questions. We had “Straight Up with Keenan Fitzgerald”. Keenan played host and did an AWESOME job! He put together a monologue that was hilarious. We did “church signs” and Keenan took us through some real and VERY funny signs. Adam and the Wholly Rollers played some great transition music then Keenan invited me out and we held a little interview to take on the questions that were turned in. It was a LOT of fun. Again, Keenan couldn’t have done a better job.
— I think our little set up helped make the questions flow well too. It wasn’t just me saying “And the next question was…”
— Adam timed out the service perfectly. We took on as many questions as we could and Adam timed out the music, videos and everything great. The band did some cool “Talk Show” music too.
— You’ll be able to watch all of “Straight Up with Keenan Fitzgerald” online this week.
— Thanks Keenan for doing an amazing job today.
— This series has been fun. I’d like to do a yearly series like this where we take on specific “sins” and talk about what the Bible has to say about them. Someone asked today when we’re going to take on other untouchables like gossip, materialism, racism, etc. Made me start thinking.
— Church in the park this Sunday. 10:30 AM at the Lions Park Amphitheater for the whole family.
— SuperDay was awesome yesterday. So much fun serving the community like that. Thanks to all who came out to help. Already talking about how we can make next year bigger and better. We got to serve literally thousands of people through the inflatable games.
— I announced our involvement in the One Prayer sermon series. Even though the official series doesn’t start until July 13th, we are starting a One Prayer Calendar tomorrow. One Prayer was an idea from Pastor Craig Groeschel of Life Church in Oklahoma City. He asked “How can we unite churches around the world into one sermon series?” He ended up with One Prayer. You can check it out here. There are about 1800 churches now participating and hundreds of thousands of people. Each local pastor participating is asked to share their one prayer for the church. Mine is “Lord make us Alive!” Other pastors from across the country have then submitted their sermons via high quality video and we can choose other sermons to share with our congregation. We’ll be hearing from Pastor Perry Noble on “Lord make us dangerous” and Pastor Steven Furtick on “Lord make us audacious”. We’re actually doing One Prayer a month later than most other churches because we already had June planned out.
— Here is where we are taking One Prayer to the next level. How cool would it be if we as a church joined together for one month to read the same Scripture, pray the same prayers, and fast the same days? Well, that’s what I’m challenging you to do. Here is a calendar you can download if you didn’t get one today at church. Our joint prayers start tomorrow. The Calendar was one thing to pray for each day. “Lord make us…” There are 28 chapters in Acts and we are going to read one chapter for the next 28 days. I’ll then blog each day about my thoughts on the chapter we read. Each day also has other local churches that I want us to pray for together. Tuesdays are the days I’m challenging us all to fast and pray. So download your calendar and join us in One Prayer. Check back here tomorrow for the first thoughts on Acts 1.
— The next 28 days are going to be fun.
— That’s about it. I’m gonna go lay down for a little bit.
Following Christ,
Jeff
