Sometime between Sunday’s last service and Monday morning my brain generates random thoughts about the weekend services. I run it over and over and then sometimes I try to write some of them down. So here’s some reflections from this weekend:
What I should have said: Our first main point this weekend was about touching people where they’re at. Although I really do believe that’s a biblical concept, I was actually talking about touching people where they HURT...physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Beckah Shae was amazing: Your response, the line to meet her and have her sign a CD or poster was very cool. I loved her attitude, spirit and heart for being used by God. Can’t wait to have her back!!
First-time guests: There were many, and each one I got a chance to talked about how much they loved the experience. Of course Beckah, but they also loved the warmth (not the heat outside) of the people, the message, and the experience as a whole.
What I forgot to say: At the 9:00 service I forgot to say one particular line (even though I shared the heart of it) I felt was really on target. Here it is... “I’m praying that the ME GENERATION matures into the THEM GENERATION.” I fully believe the “boomers” (of which I’m a part) have been getting everything we want for our whole life. Now it’s time to make sure others get what they need. If we’ve been with the Lord for more than 20 years and we’re still waiting to be fed by someone else...something’s wrong. It’s time for us to do the feeding, reach out and make sure others get to know our Lord and King.
Starbucks: Ok, that was now...while I’m writing this. But a couple just walked in the door, made a b-line for me and said, “Yesterday was AMAZING!”
THEY WERE RIGHT!
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I absolutely LOVE what the Lord used you to say this weekend! I will never forget when I was a young mother with young babies at home, I signed up for a WOW bible study and the women in that study were much more "mature" than I. I learned so much and was so encouraged by those ladies. They wrapped their arms around me and just cherished me and my boys, and all my stories and hardships I shared. And even now, I absolutely cherish my relationships with the "mature" women in our church. Their is just something so special about women and their cross-generational relationships. We young women, wives and mothers, definitely need them to continue to lead us and teach us how to become the true women Christ desires us to be! I am so grateful for the ladies I have in my life!
Wish I was there, John! You and Michelle have an amazing love for God and are wonderful expressions of God's love! I am rejoicing with you, my friend!