What a Week! Welcome 2012!

I am sitting here trying to collect all my thoughts on the week and honestly it’s hard to catch up. To give you a quick run-down, it all began with OneLife’s newest series which will most likely turn out to be my favorite (I say that a lot) called “Chance Takers : It’s Time To Go All In.” When the bumper video fired up for that, the thoughts rolled through my mind about a draft that I began back in August entitled ‘All In’. Wanting to finish that post with a lot of what Rodney Arnold taught about on Sunday that would tie in perfectly but I didn’t have time.

Sunday afternoon, we jumped in the car to head to Atlanta for Passion 2012 where Louie Giglio would open up the event from the book of Luke. His message was parallel to Rodney’s on Sunday talking about the fact that we need to Rise Up or as Rodney put it, “It’s Time To Get Up!” All this goes hand in hand with my New Years Day post about the desire to become bolder about what God is doing in my life and how I can be more passionate about sharing that with others. I want to pursue the great commission more and more and working through what that looks like in practical ways is what I hope to share in my blog. I am more excited about this Sunday in attending OneLife. If you are curious why, read here.

This week I would wind up hearing messages brought by John Piper, Francis Chan, Beth Moore and a few others as well. I would experience a worship environment that would have leaders like Chris Tomlin, David Crowder Band, Lecrae, Christy Knowles, and Kristian Stanfill. As I joked with some people from OneLife about they have a big shoe to fill this week cause I am expecting a lot coming off this week, I was quickly reminded that the worship experience doesn’t matter who the leader is but rather than the condition of your walk with Christ. It the sea of 45,000 other people, I found myself letting my guard down in my worship and just pouring my heart out through song, through praise, and through worship. We’ll see on Sunday how that boldness that I pushing for translates with that room a little tighter and about 300 in the crowd. Too often times we want to “maintain our reputation” being cool and not too overly emotional. We want people to think we have it all together when we come into the church instead of coming in and just pouring our heart out and letting go. I, and we, have to quit viewing the church as a social club to realize that the church is for hurting people. So as I will lay my guard down this week, I encourage you to as well and let God just blow your mind.

I can’t wait to share more as I process all that has happened this week.