Behind on my Remix

-EMC-ers are amazing! Over 40 people helped to get 15,000 door hangers into the community over the weekend advertising next Sunday's "Gametime tailgate party"
-We almost started on time this week....be in the main theater next week right at 10:02 for the day's opener it's going to rock.
-we closed out our sex series this week with communion. People laid sheets of paper written upon them with the the emotions, thoughts, and actions throughout their life and sexuality that they desired to concecrate to God. As we laid what represented our stained and impure bodies before God we took up His body represented through communion and we consecrated our sexuality to God afresh and anew. It was amazing what people had gone through during their lives, but Sunday God got the victory and reminded us that we can trust Him with our sexuality!!!
-There is definitely something incredible happening at the embassy. It's what you work for, pray for, sacrifice for and we are now seeing it. Lives changing, people getting involved, God drawing new people weekly and the place is starting to just feel electric. If you have been with us for a while great. If your new awesome... We are in for some incredible days ahead and I'm glad you're a part of what is going to be a movement that will impact lives tremendously. I'm loving that we are starting to get a two fold rep. One, that we are definetely a place where the unchurched and dechurched can find God in Woodstock and that the leadership and all the emc-ers aren't threatening or over the top as people come to check the things of faith, God, and spiritual community out. And two, that we don't hold back we teach right where people live and we challenge to embrace fully what God desires for us. Are we "seeker sensitive" well When it comes to church I hate all the political junk and social posturing that robs people of what the focus of gathering together should be. I wouldn't say we are seeker sensitive. I would say we are seeker conscious. I want the room to be the right temp, the coffee to be hot, and the kid's environments to be appealing, but when I preach I don't think not offending people is what anybody needs. Sometimes God's word is an offense and I think people in our generation want challenged. they just don't want challenged through angry preacher rhetoric aimed more at getting the applause of the pious then to actually help people apply real truths in their real life to see the real results that our real God desires. Now that's a lot of reals, but I guess that best sums up what I am hearing people say about their emc experience.
-can't wait until next Sunday!