Disturbed?

I ran across this prayer today and it made me think...How many of us are doing something so big, dreaming dreams so large, that without God we will fall flat on our face? I believe God wants to do great things through the church today, I believe we are just to afraid of failing and looking unsuccesful to our peers that we are afraid to have a God-size vision in our life!

Here's the prayer:

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life; having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity; and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizons of our hopes; and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love.

I know I have been sailing too close to the shore lately and I am asking Jesus to disturb me to action.

In what areas have you become too comfortable and need to pray: "Lord, disturb me?" In what areas in your life have you been traveling too close to shore and need to pray: "Lord, disturb me?"

A lot to catch up on...

So, I know what you're thinking, I guess Scott feel out of the blogasphere world...well kinda, but things around here have been crazy...I mean seriously crazy. Between a 10 day road trip, graduation, concerts and the list goes on and on, my life has been interesting. Every time I get ready to come back and post, I found another thing come up...

Okay enough excuses...I'm back and ready to rejoin the bloggin world. So if you have left, come back, if your new, welcome!

Where have you been?

You may have been asking that question about me...it's been crazy here...We had an awesome service at the end of February (on Wednesday Night), celebrated Blake's birthday, did our 1st drama here, and yesterday I preached for the first time in the main sanctuary...and on top of all that...I'm now on FACEBOOK! Ok, so I can see where it can be a little addictive...If you don't have me as a friend...hit me up...and I'll try to get back in the groove of blogging...I am heading to Knoxville Wednesday for Winterfest so I may be here and there with it.

Wednesday Review

Last night was an overall good night. We started with a cool animated video. Praise and Worship was good...We did some interactive texting agian this week although we really cut down on it this week. I didn't feel like I spoke really well but overall it was a good night. I feel like we are really gaining some momentum. Good things are happening and it's exciting every week to see what God is going to do...stay tuned 'cause something big's about to happen!!

Here is picture from last night.

Wednesday Review

Last night was AWESOME!! It was our interactive service and here is how it went down...

After the countdown we went into a "text intro" (thanks zach) which was basically a computer driven message on the screens that was communicating to the students like a text message. I was surprised at how much the students were interacting with the video.

We came out of that and into me doing announcements and offering. Then the band did an amazing job with worship. During one of the worship songs we gave students the opportunity to text in what God is to them...I was honestly nervous about this at first, but it was unreal!! Here's a sample of what it looked like

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We also had Derrick painting during worship...which was also incredible! Great job D!



Worship really was unreal this week...Great job band!

Finally we went into an interactive message, which this week was dominated by the poll questions we were asking students about dating. Here is a view of what it looked like...



We had a panel up front of that students could ask questions to, or we just allowed students that wanted to to share their opinion openly...if they wanted to stand up to the mic...



Overall, I was extremely pleased with last nights service!! I am excited because next week we are going to be utilizing the texting again, but I am going to get more time to preach!!

This was definitely a HUGE success for us!!

This Wednesday

So this Wednesday will be our first attempt at a txt interactive service. We are setting up everything tonight to be ready for Wednesday and I'm looking forward to an awesome night. We are talking about dating and guy/girl relationships in general. Last Wednesday I told all the students to bring their phone (like they wouldn't) and be ready so this should be fun.

We purchased a service that allows us to not only have immediate poll updates, but also gives us the opportunity to moderate any comments that come through (we are talking about students you know)...but I don't want to give out too much info to spoil the surprise.

I'll let you know how it turns out!! I'm excited!

Super Bowl Recap

So it has taken me a bit to get back here and recap our superbowl party but it was great!! We had an awesome turn out (around 250) and the place looked great. We of course had great food (wings, pizza etc...), giveaways (we gave a cardinals and steelers super bowl jersey, cheesecake factory gift cards, starbucks etc...), I had some of my students play in between commercials some (which worked out great) and Bobby Humphrey spoke at halftime. It was a great event. A ton of work, but a great event. The pictures definitely don't do it justice but here they are: