Sunday Wrap-up

• Other Sunday Reviews: Ritz, Chris and Phil.
• It is good to be back after 3 Sundays out.
• The hugs from all of my moms were awesome.
• Ela was in the hizzy this Sunday!! That always makes for a great day.
• We’d had some great growth through this summer bumping up over 500 and then slumped a bit over the last 5 weeks.
• We were already committed to a 3 service schedule starting September 14. So, the 5 week slump concerned me a bit that we would have three sparsely attended services soon.
• But, today on our first Sunday after school started, we definitely will be all set for the 8:30, 9:45, and 11 AM schedule three Sundays from now.
• We’re ready right now.
• My hair was a conversation piece.
• Paul was making fun of me. Paul has no room to make fun of people’s hair.
• Jesse was out on vacation. The band was great. The Citizen Cane did a great job leading.
• We hit week 2 of life group registration. We’ve got some great new leaders and some great books we’re working through.
• We talked about “Money” today in the kick of of our Loaded series.
• It seems like the American church has one of two approaches to money: avoid talking about OR hyper-prosperity gimmickry.
• We laid out the challenge to live like your money belongs to God…because it does.
• It was great to have a couple of my friends from out of town with us today, Dr. Jim and Anita Chamberlain, pastors of Christ Walk Church in Fernandina Beach, FL.
• Did I say its good to be back home?! I had a great time being gone. But, there is no place like home, being surrounded by my own junk, and my own dysfunctional church family.