Lately at church...

One of the things about FIRE church is is that its actually a place that i don't like to miss on sunday mornings and thursday nites. I can remember remarking to one of my buddies Joel when we first started at FIRE... we were driving back down from PA to Concord from a short time in Lancaster. I remember saying in the car, after missing a FIRE church service "i miss being at church at FIRE! Thats such a wonderful feeling..." he remarked that he felt the same way. The thing is is that for about a year in between graduating high school and moving down to FIRE, i dreaded going to church. I really didn't get much out of it at all... it was boring and i didn't feel like talking about it to people because i honestly didn't have a whole lot of good things to say about it. That's not the case now, for the most part. I don't like to miss many of our services! why, you ask..? well, because things are commonly happening! granted, we're not seeing salvations every week and healings and deliverance and all that fun stuff... but God is going something and i love being on the front lines for it.

Lately at church on sunday mornings, we've been going thru the book of Acts. this last week, we did Acts 20. It's been really neat! Granted, its a quick overview of each chapter. its really hard to do like a serious indepth study of a chapter in an hour. that just doesn't happen. but i enjoy the fact that the Holy Spirit is given room and time to move. also take into account that we do have a limited time of being there. we have to be out of the gym by 12:30. so a 3 hour time limit is on us. which for a church like ours, thats hard to do. and just recently, they've started up a prayer team at church. so of course i joined that (i'm a prayer glutton.. i didn't start getting drunk until i started going to FIRE) i remarked to Brian Mitchell the other day that i should make up a shirt that says "I got drunk at church." that would stir up a hornets nest....

coming up, our school is planning a retreat to start off the new trimester. It's called Immersion. The whole point is for everyone to be coming in and start off strongly together. Get relationships going and hearts primed and prepped. I'm going to be helping various means (like toilet papering the place... lol). but seriously, i'm going to be running around like a chicken w/ my head cut off keeping things running. you would think that thats nothing, but in all actuality, if you want power, serve. think about it: who are the people we always go to when things happen? the tech people.... you want some real power... serve.