Weekend Reflections
We continued The Elephant in the Church series this week. I talked about the fake elephant which is hypocrisy. Gotta admit: I'm loving this series of messages! There are some series that you feel like it's exactly what God ordered. That's how I feel about this series.
We made the move to two Saturday night services and our first service was still standing room only. We definitely want NCCers to attend whatever service they want to, but we're out of seats in the 5 PM. Love to have a few people switch over to the 6:30.
One of the personal highlights was showing one of my all-time favorite movie clips from Tommy Boy where Chris Farley says, "Helen, let me tell you why I suck." I tied it into confession. Confession is disarming and endearing! What would happen if the church stopped pointing out other people's sins and started confessing our own? If we did more confessing I think the world would do more listening. Profession without confession is a fake elephant.
After our Saturday night services we met with Tito Penalba, a pastor from Honduras. Their vision is to meet in movie theaters in Honduras so they wanted to do some recon at NCC this weekend. I was so inspired by their vision! Very cool to see the theater church movement going international.
We made the move to two Saturday night services and our first service was still standing room only. We definitely want NCCers to attend whatever service they want to, but we're out of seats in the 5 PM. Love to have a few people switch over to the 6:30.
One of the personal highlights was showing one of my all-time favorite movie clips from Tommy Boy where Chris Farley says, "Helen, let me tell you why I suck." I tied it into confession. Confession is disarming and endearing! What would happen if the church stopped pointing out other people's sins and started confessing our own? If we did more confessing I think the world would do more listening. Profession without confession is a fake elephant.
After our Saturday night services we met with Tito Penalba, a pastor from Honduras. Their vision is to meet in movie theaters in Honduras so they wanted to do some recon at NCC this weekend. I was so inspired by their vision! Very cool to see the theater church movement going international.
5 Comments:
Regarding your e-votional re: drinking: I'm a Messianic Jews and Jews always incorporate wine with holidays, festivals and festive occasions, but frown on drunkenness. I recently read an old Jewish proverb which essentially was: We drink when we are full, not to fill us when we are empty.
Boy, how true that is!
Will you be live at the 6:30 service each week?
Anon,
It'll be live the next few weeks. Not 100% sure what we'll do after this series.
PM
so I'm definitely waiting on you fake elephant to be on Podcast.
I'm excited to see you are doing this series. A friend and I were talking (before-hand) about all the issues you shared on in the grey elephant message.
If you could let me know when you get it the new podcasts up...
thanks.
I loved your comments on drinking, I feel the exact same way.
Derek,
Our digital pastor just had a baby :) So we're a little delayed...we'll try to get them updated ASAP.
Thanks,
Mark
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