Love U – Week 1 Recap
Feb/092
I LOVED being at church yesterday. We kicked off our Love U series and God did some flat out incredible stuff. He worked in our people AND through our people.
I subscribe to the idea that you pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you. Our team did both of those things as they prepared and led the service. Every second of the service yesterday was specifically crafted around a simple theme: Love God.
Jesus told us that the greatest command in the whole Bible is the command to love God (Mark 12:28-31). And we used every second we had yesterday to communicate that truth in a powerful, memorable way. We juggled the order of the service, split the sermon into two segments, hand picked every word in every song…we even used a song by Rascal Flatts yesrerday. Whatever it takes to help people grasp God's truth.
But here's a little secret…this type of planning happens every week at ACC. Every service is specifically crafted. Every second of every service is specifically designed to help people experience God and His truth in a fresh, powerful, exciting, memorable, life-changing way.
Pray like it depends on God. Work like it depends on you.
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4:32 pm on February 9th, 2009
I really like that phrase. It puts so much in perspective. Thank you for such a simple truth.
6:10 pm on February 9th, 2009
Rascal Flatts?? That is awesome. I would have LOVED to have been there for the service…I am sure a lot of LOVE was happening. Would even bet Jim Willison broke his "hugging people" record yesterday!!