Today was the day we moved to new Sunday morning times and a new format for our second service. This is one of the few changes we have made for which I received no negative feedback. That things seemed too good to be true had me a bit apprehensive. As hard as we planned and tried to think through every scenario, we were all certain that we would discover some things that would surprise us.
The big morning came and went and I am very thankful and satisfied. There are certainly a few tweaks that we can make for a smoother flow, but overall I think this was a good morning. At 8:30am I walked around the building peeking in on the various classes, many of them new. The attendance was good and people seemed excited. At 9:45 we kicked off the first service. Wow! The place was packed out, the praise team kicked it up a notch and we launched into the new series on Building World Changers.
At 11:15 the second service began. This was the one we had never done before. About 5 minutes before we were to start the college band hit a few chords to tune, and the crowd of students that had gathered down front went crazy. They were excited. I was excited. It was great! We started for real and did they ever rock! Nothing thrills me more than to be in a room filled with students who love God. Not everyone in the room was a student, of course, but those who were infused all of us with a spirit of praise and worship.
Yep, it was a very good day.
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