Hey Element Church! Sorry for the delayed Rumination. I am in Boise, ID taking part in an advisory board for a church plant here. One of my best friends and college roomates is planting a church here. Connections Church I am one of three other planters that will be meeting with Dusty this week to give leadership and council on his plant. I totally feel like I should be the one learning from everyone else. Dusty is a phenomonal leader, as are the other three guys. I feel like the small duck in the pond. Blogging may be a little weak this week due to our meeting. I’m excited for my vision to be expanded and leadership to be strengthened through the week. It’s been great to hang out with Dusty already. Been a while since we got to hang out. Here are my Ruminations on yesterday.
— LOTS of response to prayer on the issue of divorce. Many people requested prayer for struggling marriages, and MANY others who already were divorced or divorced and remarried and wanted to make sure they made the correct choices from now on. This issue BY FAR touches the most people out of all the issues we looked at.
— 434 in church yesterday. Staying consistent through summer, that is good.
— First service was one of those services. If you’re a pastor you know what I mean. Every once in a while you feel like you dudded one. Which is weird cause I preached the exact same sermon in 2nd service and felt GREAT. Had good responses after first service which goes to show that it’s not how you feel. Hard to remember though.
— There is SO MUCH stuff I wanted to talk about on Divorce and just didn’t have the time. It’s one of those topics I feel would be great for a round table. Digging into the Word. Hearing other opinions. I felt like one service just didn’t do it justice. But, what do ya do. I hope it helped some people and made sense.
— I LOVED doing this series. I learned so much and felt like my own faith and convictions were stretched and confirmed. We have some good questions coming in. Remember to email them to questions @ elementweb dot net.
— We may as well have preached on hell again yesterday…cause it was about that hot again. We gotta get the AC figured out.
— To say we had some technical difficulties would be an understatement. Andy said “I don’t think we have enough paper to write down all the things that went wrong today”
— Adam was SUPER sick yesterday. God really helped him get through and he did a great job. Even battling all the tech mishaps. His guitar went out at one point. I thought he was going to pass out at one point.
— I’m amazed at our volunteers. I’m usually in the worship center and so I don’t see everyone working. We have so many people that make this thing work. Amazing! THANK YOU to everyone who volunteers. Each role is so vital. MAN it blows me away. We had a few volunteers gone yesterday and it just throws everything out of kilter one just one is gone. Amazing! Terri stepped up and filled MANY roles.
— I miss meeting with everyone today. I enjoy Mondays. Praying for our church. Planning. Getting to hang with all the staff. They’re probably eating popcorn and watching movies all day with me gone.
— I miss my family already.
— SuperDay this Saturday. Come out and see us!
That’s it. I should have time to do some other blogging this week. Check it out!
Following Christ,
Jeff
