Yes, we love them. They are the reason that LCBC is the way it is, as David said this past weekend. So last night the Young Adult team had a huge thank you party for our volunteers. It was great, we had some great food, good music, and a great time hanging out afterwards playing some games.
One of those games was Mario Kart Wii and Wii Sports on a huge (I mean HUGE) screen. I was “testing” it earlier in the day, to make sure everything worked, and the screen was so big, that when I was playing Mario Kart I could feel the movement in my stomach, like when I was going over hills. Crazy!
Well, below is a picture of some of our young adults playing tennis. Just our little way of saying a BIG thank you.
Saturate tonight is our last one for the semester. We are still continuing throughout the summer, but it will just be once a month.
Tonight we have a lot of music planned, some good songs that we have connected with over the past year. Also, I’ll be teaching for about 5 minutes, maybe 10. I’m hoping to be talking about what we have been given, how that translates into thinking outside of ourselves, how we are supposed to live in unity with what we have been given, and about Matt Parks and his tools. Hopefully my first teaching experience will go well. Not for me as much at the people who will be listening to me.
If you are in the Lancaster area tonight, come check us out at LCBC at 7:30.
I played again this weekend for church and had a lot of people asking me about something I was using with a little blue light. I figured I would blog about it, even though most of those people probably won’t see this anyways!
We played “Never Let Go” by David Crowder today at the end of our service. We kind of changed it up a bit and made it pretty flowing and had people come up and light candles and leave them at the front of the stage. We just finished up a series called Fight Club that was really about relationship and how we need to fight for them to save them and keep them healthy. We were finishing up with just saying sometimes no matter how hard we try things still happen. Divorce still happens or has happened to some of us. What David was saying at the end of the service is that God never lets go. People lighting these candles were representing that they were committing to fighting for their relationships and acknowledging that God still has us in His hands.
With that said, we played that song. The song is very laid back and just flowing, so I thought I would bust out the ebow (which belongs to Sean Steele by the way). It’s a great addition to any guitarists tonal tools. Basically you hold it over the string you want to use and it generates an electric field that vibrates that sting. Then you can change notes on the string. Throw some thick delay in there and you have some beautiful sounds. It simulates taking a violin bow and running across your strings. It’s really fun, there are some guys out there that can do incredible things with them, I’m still learning.
Over the past week or two I’m continually thinking about community (like I always do) and how important we each are to community. Let me give you some framework:
We have been discussing in our Creative Team about “our role” in God’s story. We are going to be starting a God’s story themed series for Saturate in a few weeks. So we have had a lot of conversations about what our young adult community wants to hear versus what they need to hear. One thing that my friend Matt would bring up is the desire to want to be a part of something big, and having a significant role, and feeling irreplaceable. I feel like this is something most people desire, it’s part of the nature of God that is in us.
I started thinking, instead of me wanting to be apart of something big for myself, what would it be like if I wanted to be apart of something big for others, and the fact that God allows me to be apart of that, changes my heart?
I also have been thinking about Amanda and I, and our role as a married couple in a primarily singles young adult ministry. It’s not just for singles, but for couples too, but the majority are singles, as well as our friends. How does our part (Amanda and I) fit into God’s story, more specifically the young adult community at LCBC?
My next thought was then, “what if we are irreplaceable”, like Parksy said, what if we are so important that if we are missing something won’t be the same, God’s plan continues, but something looks a little different then intended, (this would be because of sin). But, what if we are irreplaceable because of the community we are supposed to take part in and not just because we are individually special, but because with our gifting combined, we are something unstoppable and undeniably breathtaking.
I’m talking about Amanda and I together, I’m talking about us being apart of Liquid Young Adult Ministries at LCBC, I’m talking about the Church family at LCBC, I’m talking about the whole worldwide body of believers(aka the Catholic Church (not the Catholic branch of Christianity)).
What if my significant role in God’s story, is to be willing to pick the guy up that needs a ride across E-town, because he doesn’t have a car, and I do. My role is significant because of the way I am moving God’s kingdom forward by embracing my responsibilities of being apart of a community.
All this to say, that is humbling. That is the natural heart check built into the Christ Community. Some people have gifts that are looked up to more than other gifts. Like they are idolized, “I want to lead worship”, “I want to speak to thousands”, “I want to change peoples lives”. All of these in themselves not bad, the fine balance is when it is done for yourself or for others. If you realize that the reason you do it(use your gift), is for others, it is humbling.
My friend Jason wrote about this the other day, I appreciate his honesty in his post.
May we live for each other, so we may live irreplaceable lives.
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