Rad day with church yesterday… twice.

So proud of my bossman Chris G yesterday morning cos after worship vibes he got up to say something and was deeply moved by what God was telling him to say but not being a hugely demonstrative person in nature he could only say he felt like hitting the lectern… angry with himself for all the crap he allows in his life (although didn’t use word ‘crap’ just in case Charis was hiding in the cry room maybe?) and just settles for and doesn’t deal with… and angry with the congregation for where they do the same… (all in the very Chris G key of not-making-anyone-feel-condemned-but-getting-them-to-think)

Then i got up to do an announcement about youth vibes for next year and a camp but before i did i got people to close their eyes and take time on what he had just spoken… and then launched into a twenty/thirty minute heart ministry/preach vibe really continuing on from where Chris left off cos he was too emotional within himself and just completely led by God speaking into the congregation and some specific situations and issues… totally unprepared…

And Chris pretty much abandoned his preach except for reading 1 Cor 12-14 from the Message and that was really cool – most proudest i’ve been of him i think (no, not proud, proud-est!) cos just a solid sense that we were led by God and did his business… and was spot on for where our church is and what they need to hear…

Then in the evening, although our enGAGE services have officially ended with departure of the majority of students, we are still meeting together (the remnant) and last night there were about 15 of us maybe and we chatted around the topic of speaking life or speaking curses/death into/over people and i was a bit nervous before we started cos it really could have been the shortest service in the history or last night but okes really got engaged and involved in and with the topic and it was really great. And we kicked bum in the cricket. But it felt like we kicked bigger bum just hanging out as Jesus followers. And that is a good thing.