Celebration & Worship Night Scheduled!

Sam Hills gave me a great tip the other night when he said, "You know, the dudes in this class are really starting to break open in worship- it's too bad you can't harness that a little better."

I said something like, "Yeah, but you know how much I like to talk for 90 minutes straight Sam- that is a non-negotiable. Also, where'd you get that cool hat?"

Thinking on it more, though, a couple of things came to mind:

1) You dudes really are bringing the worship kind of strong, in the last couple of meetings
2) I ALWAYS feel like I cut the worship time off short so we can get to content, content, content
3) I am SO encouraged by the stories that get passed around, and I know we only have time for a fraction of those to actually be shared in the meetings.

So, I says to myself, why don't we just do a big worshippy blow-out when we get done with this class? Yeah! We could sing it up to the LORD for his good good delivering ways, share stories of our redeemer battling those things that set themselves against us, and just have a big time! Sam also mentioned how good it would be to have some open time to minister to one another, so we'd like to make some room for that, too. Basically, we want a worshippy, prayer-y carnival of fun and joy. And you're invited. As is your spouse. And anybody else in your community that you want to share this moment with. I can assure you that attempts will be made toward good music (I'm about to get on that), and I can PROMISE you that the stories shared will be encouraging and make you want to lift up your hands to a Savior who loves us that much. (It'll basically be like this:)

Anyhow, it's August 5th (the Wednesday night after we're done), in the chapel. Pencil it in! My wife's class of 40 women and their spouses and friends will also be invited (and they've got killer stories to share, too), so we'll have a good-sized crowd there. It's gon' be STRONG. I encourage you to put the time aside, start working on child care... whatever you need to do.

Sweet. I'm excited about it.