Sunday Mind Dump

Just finished up a teaching series called "Be The Church." It was something we just plain needed to do. As we are in the infancy of 242 church we have to remind ourselves that we are to be about our Fathers business and he is in the business of people. That means if we want to be the church and not just do church we should be:

• Loving the unlovely.
• Spending time with those far from God.
• Fishing for men (and women.)
• And spending our lives connected to each other.
  

Those are tall tasks I know but Acts 2:42-47 is the handbook for how to grow a church. The question remains....will we become an Acts 242 church?


So let's dump:

• Loved, loved, loved doing the brunch potluck last week and not "doing church." In many ways, we had more church that day than we do every other Sunday with a message and music!
• Only a month until Pastor Craig comes on full-time. I've been talking to him on a regular basis and he is happy as a clam about it. God is going to do some good things though him.
• Next week April and I will be away. Enjoy the Christmas music and Jenn. I am sure she is going to do a great job telling the Christmas story. Truth be told, I am terrible with anything remotely traditional!! People will probably be much happier with her telling the story :)
• After Christmas we are going to start a one month series I am calling "Lost Luggage." It's the final series I am teaching before Craig comes on and takes over as the primary teacher.
  
• We just announced our Chili Cook Off/Soup Cook off this morning. It's set up for Jan 29th and should be a hoot. Details will follow.
• Looking forward to unplugging for a few days over the holidays. April and I have had a rough month and getting away will do us some good!
• All my NFL teams won today. That doesn't happen often. Now if my fantasy teams would start playing to their potential!
• One more week of school. Enough said.
• I am out!