Weekend Reflections
Goodbye God @ the Billboards :)I know it's a good sermon series when I'm not ready for it to end. Usually I run out of steam at the end of a series, but I'm already looking forward to next year's God @ the Billboards series. Definitely ranks as one of my favorites!
Really proud of our bands for pulling off the songs!
Had a little fun today. I actually showed an old video of some of my basketball highlights from High School. I used it as a metaphor for my message. I feel like it's important for pastors to find creative ways to humanize themselves. I think videos where you wearing short shorts effectively does that :)
We ended the series by celebrating communion. It was a perfect fit with the song and the theme. We played off the line of lyrics in Unwritten: Today is where you book begins. Every time we celebrate communion it feels like I'm starting a new chapter spiritually.
Really excited about people crossing the line of faith this weekend. We used my book, ID: The True You as a giveway for people who made a decision to give God complete editorially control of their life. I encouraged people to write the date on the inside cover. We gave away alot of copies!
6 Comments:
humanizing good.
inflating ego bad.
we had/have a pastor that likes to show off his skillz and old photos, too.
he comes off as cocky to some and somewhat conceited to most. he actually had a free throw shoot out put on-stage to beat his daughter in a heated competition one weekend.
i'm not saying you're a vein celebrity pastor. i really don't know you at all (how well can you get to know someone by reading their blog?), but i think there's a fine line in the humanization of the pastor.
everyone needs a pastor they can relate to. but humanizing yourself by flexing your muscles ends up having a schwarzenegger effect where you actually end up doing the opposite of what you wanted.
my fiancé is terrified of this same pastor (she's been on staff at the church for over a year) b/c he's so much of a superstar in our area.
i'm not sure how to stay on the human side of that line, it's just too hard to please everyone. but i do think people react to weakness more than a show of superiority.
People definitely resonate more with our failures than successes :)
That is a huge part of humanizing!
Thanks for the message yesterday ... I'm still on a high - reminded that my story is still being written by the author and finisher of my faith.
now i want to hear the message...
do you guys offer MP3s of the sermons?
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Well, I was in attendence for the last billboard sermon on Sunday. My son attends GWU and I was in town for the weekend. I was truely blest and blown away at the same time. I had to dig in to my spending cash and place an undisclosed amount of $$$ in your popcorn bucket, simply because I wanted to support your ministry and didn't have any other way to do so. I was compelled by the spirit so to speak.
While visiting my son, a group of his friends and I played worship songs out in the middle of GWU's campus until about 11:30 Saturday night, then took everything in doors and played some more until 1:00 AM Sunday. I was handed a guitar and Jammed on songs I knew and even on songs I didn't know. It was a magically spiritual evening for me. And ... everyone got up and attended the church at Union Station the next morning, as if we couldn't get enough spiritual blessing crammed into one weekend! Thank you for being part of my trip to DC, and for being part of my son's college experience, and for the friends he has made. I will visit your site regularly, and will see you next time I'm in town.
PS: I've been feeling a bit frustrated with the music ministry at our church, I play there regularly. Before this trip, I decided to "take a break" for my own reasons. But ... Sometimes God sends along a Big Fish to swallow you up and spit you out again on some distant shore when you least expect it. I was swallowed up by your worship team, and was spit back out here in Louisville, KY, in my community church. I'm meeting with my pastor on Thursday to see what new possiblities God has in store for me. It happens.
Ron Van Treuren
Louisville KY
rvantreu@sevencounties.org
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