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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Favorite Line: “It’s not my money! Hah.”
People easily jump to support a cause if they think there’s no real cost to support it. Plenty of folks will help you “raise awareness” for your cause by wearing a ribbon, re tweeting, joining your facebook group, starting their own hipster facebook group to encourage others to join your group, even urging others to donate… However, as helpful as that is, if it wasn’t for the people who actually count the cost, make the donation, show up, and put their compassion into action nothing positive would ever happen.
Thanks to all of you who have shared your time, talents, and resources over the last two years to help make actionchurch a reality. It would not exist without you. Lives are being changed because of your actions!
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
With the Super Bowl and The Daytona 500 coming up, I’ve been thinking about traditions. (Side note: If you’ve got the whole Valentines day thing figured out-February is a great month to be a man.)
Anyway…back to traditions. Traditions are important. Without traditions to keep the purpose of things intact, the super bowl may have morphed into a drum-corp demonstration…or a dog show…or perhaps the “football” part might have disappeared and we’d just be watching commercials and a lame half-time show on Sunday. Without tradition the Daytona 500 may have completely lost the “racin” part by now and have become just an infield camping event/beer party for drunken red necks. Oops…that would be Talledega. Traditions are good. They’re needed. They keep organizations and events from losing focus and direction.
Traditions can be bad. They can keep us from growing and becoming more effective in our purpose. If football completely followed tradition, the Super Bowl would be a bunch of skinny white guys in leather helmets playing without pads in front of a few hundred fans. If the Daytona 500 completely followed tradition, they would still be racing on Daytona beach in 1953 Chevrolets with no seat belts dodging a few hundred fans/soon to be injured crash victems. Ignoring tradition is good. It helps us grow…keeps us from dying.
Whether you’re talking about the Super Bowl, The Daytona 500, or Sunday church services, they all have traditions. The big question is what traditions are important? What traditions should be changed? What should NEVER be changed?
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
So a preacher and a metal band walk into a nightclub…ok it’s not a dumb joke…thats pretty much every Sunday at actionchurch. This Sunday Pastor Dave Kerrison was with us to talk about “Taking the next step”. WHERE EVER you are at in your “walk” of faith. Whether you are just starting to take first steps…even if you’ve been a follower of Jesus for years…where ever you are…we all need to take the NEXT step. Dave laid out that the next step is different for all of us…but we can all get directions for that next step from the same place- the Bible.
Meanwhile, ionia was tearing up the actionchurch stage all the way from New York City. I am really so thankful that this VERY talented band wanted to spend 8+ hours in a van just to rock us with 5 songs early on a Sunday Morning. I think these guys will go FAR with their sound and work ethic. The guys will be on the warped tour this summer and will be stopping back by actionchurch at some point in their travels. I’ve got some ionia tunes on my hard drive now.
I’m not sure if Josiah and I fully prepared Pastor Dave for what a morning at actionchurch is like…we tried…It’s just something that needs to be experienced. It was fun to hear Josiah on the mic with his former youth pastor…although he was much “gentler” with Dave than the regular guy
On a personal note, this was my first Sunday “attending” actionchurch and it was SUCH a great week for me. Our family has traveled out of town a few times over the last two years…but until now I’ve never been able to have someone else preach and get to just sit in the crowd on a Sunday morning.
THANKS for putting up with my fidgeting and not being able to sit still for an hour (Dr. Eric was watching and laughing at me during the sermon).
SORRY, to whoever the lady was in the table in front of me whose chair I kept accidentally kicking (I’m a spaz).
Most of all, though I am looking forward to being back behind the mic next Sunday, but I really appreciate some down time to rest and “refill”. I really need to do that a lot more.
You do NOT want to miss a single Sunday between now and Easter. Jerry has some amazing bands booked, and we will be “turning up the heat” on the entire actionchurch experience. As I shared with the crew before the service Sunday in a little state of the union address…I believe we are entering a very exciting season at actionchurch.
Speaking of Crew…here’s a picture of what club 19 would look like when you show up on Sunday mornings without the great actionchurch crew. Thanks to all of you for making it happen each week!
Thanks to Garret Snyder for all photos. See more here.
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