Sunday In Review

Sunday was a big day. We not only had our morning service but it was also time for FSN (First Sunday Night). We held a Vision Dinner at the Owasso Community Center. It was AWESOME!! Here are some thoughts about Sunday.

Morning Service:

• I was out of town last week so it was great to be back.
• I talked about our follow through. How it is critical we serve Jesus with the same energy now as we did when we first launched. I used the illustration of a baseball swing. The difference between a great hit and a foul ball can be...follow through.
  
• I want us to be a church that is ALL ABOUT JESUS.
  
• The music was great.
• During the sermon one the theater employees turned on the pre-movie slides with music and everything. I had to stop during the sermon while someone ran to tell them to stop the pre-movie music and slides. It was funny...but I was a little thrown off to say the least.
• Someone told me I would have trouble preaching over "Marley And Me."
  
• I love our church.
• The after church breakdown seemed to go really fast.
• We had some church planters with us checking out how we set up on Sundays.
  

Vision Dinner

• Started at 6:00 p.m.
• We had the whole meal catered. The food was awesome.
• There were all kinds of eye glasses on the tables. All the decorations had to do with vision. It really reinforced what we were doing.
• I thought the night really helped bring everyone together and focus on our mission.
• It was great to see families who don't know each other that well getting to talk and connect.
• Jeremy Johnson gave his testimony and talked about God leading him to Lifepoint. I think it is a powerful story.
• Jimmy built a powerpoint game that asked questions about the last 9 months of Lifepoint. It helped communicate where we've been in a very creative way.
• The kids had more fun than anyone. They ran and played. They love being together.
  
• Jimmy also took at picture of my head and blew it up to poster board size. He tried to sneak it in but his daughter came up to me and said they had a picture of me. I knew something was up. It is very disturbing to see a 3 foot head shot of yourself. Especially when the eyes are not quite level and it looks like I have a lazy eye.
  
• I answered some common questions about Lifepoint.
• I talked about goals for 2009.
• After everything was over someone volunteered to get in the rotation for Lifpoint Kids.
  
• The night turned out better than I could have ever imagined.
• You can see some pictures of the night here.