Statue Worshipers

So yesterday was my 7th week up here in Michigan at Journey Life Church and things could not be better! The weather is absolutely amazing, the people up here are so real and that alone is such a breath of fresh air. My wife and I moved into a house this past week that we're renting and it's absolutely incredible. But there seems to be this missing link, a funk hanging around my spiritual life.

I need you more
More than yesterday
I need you more
More than words can say
I need you more
Than ever before
I need you Lord, I need you Lord

This past Sunday as I was leading worship, there was a point when I looked out into the crowd of faces and I saw statues, hundreds of statues worshiping, stone faces, stone hearts. It almost threw me off so badly in the middle of the last song when I first saw it that I almost stopped singing, and it made me question so many things about how we are doing worship.

"And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice - the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him" - Romans 12:1

So then it became clear to me that exactly how the people are worshiping is how I'm leading them. In the midst of leading the people to God, I have lost sight of where I'm leading them, and that's simply because I have not been to before where I am leading them. I have not given myself completely to the cause. I got lost in the actions and forgot the purpose. The momentum was more important then the direction. I forgot that I need God more... than everything.

It's time to have a change of heart. A change of mind. It's time to focus, to realize what truly matters. I cannot love like I should, give like I should, act like I should, hope like I should, and worship like I should until I realize that simple truth. God I need you more...

April 11th 2012 - Set change week

It's been about 2 months since my wife, Julianna and I have moved up here to Salisbury, NC. Definitely not what we expected. The people are awesome, landscape is incredible. But somewhere along the way, it just seems like what I half expected went WAY off course and what God expected for us was NOT what we were prepared for.

So this is the week after Easter weekend and so begins Set Change again. Even though this happens to be probably the busiest week of the month, I simply love it. It's a chance for my innermost creativity to come out and I can dream up the craziest ideas and figure out how to get them to work. Engineering, creating, designing... love it!

The last time (which happen to be the first time) we did a set change, my sister Sarah and her husband Jason came down from Michigan for a short vacation and got to take part in that adventure. Loved having them here.

I don't get enough time for my family. I miss them tons.

My wife is my world! Love her so much it's crazy. She's incredible, always by my side. I couldn't imagine life without her.