DISQUS

YES! Rich Mullins!

(My wife and I were talking today about how much we love the Mullins.)

“You Make Me Hot with Desire.”

I'm am totally cracking up - that is hilarious!

Fred,
"Church at home" sounds like a cool idea. I love the intentionality of it so much more that "we take that Sunday off."

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Top Ten and I didn't even lead worship today!

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Fred,
This was my last Sunday too - although in a different way than yours. A Charlie Brown Jingle Jam sounds pretty fun.

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Jana,
I was thinking the same thing!

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Fred,
Way to adjust for the situation. Just curious, what's a "smaller band" for you?

It's always cool to hear about Lead Pastors and Worship Pastors working together to plan cohesive worship.

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Awesome bro, I'm super jealous, as I'd totally love to go. Have a great time!

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Fred,
I had someone else leading worship today too. I'm with you man - I love the diversity.

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Fred,
I LOVE it man! Seriously, very cool. There's just a certain vibe that comes with having an electronic drum loop that I'm such a fan of.

I also like your logic behind leaving the loop simple to leave room for the on-stage musicians.

LOVE the southern voice cues.

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on to something?

Yes, absolutely.

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That's pretty funny. So is Conan's hair.

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"What ever happened to not HIRING more employees until your business can AFFORD to pay them?"

Ha! I had the exact same thought!

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"Holy, Holy, Holy" with the rhodes sounds pretty awesome man. Wish I could've been there to worship with you guys.

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Fred,
I'm curious, what type of lessons did you learn from the book? (I'd like to check the book out, but I wonder if there was 1 or 2 principles that stood out.)

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Kinda smarmy

I love to scale back and give the tech guys a break in the booth.

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Marcelo,
I'm a HUGE fan of Angel Food and Public Libraries! I just love the ethics of living within my means.

Russ,
I just had a great conversation with a really intelligent guy yesterday about the effectiveness of government social programs - or more realistically the NON-effectiveness. I'm big on small government.

YES - churches (and other private, local, non-religious institutions) do a MUCH better job at social justice than the federal government.

Those were my views before I ever heard of this year's candidates. Yes, I'm voting for the candidates that represent these views.

Fred,
wow 30 post!! This is going really well. Thank you again for doing it.

I'm one of those fem-a-phobes so I'm not huge on the line "I want to be your bride..." But man - terrific song! I love just the keys and voice.

Alex,
Although I think this is pretty cute, I can't really agree with all of it. I don't agree that the most effective model for every church everywhere is for the pastor to know what the inside of every single kitchen looks like of every single person who is part of his church community.

That only limits the number of people you reach. Some leaders are good at that style of leadership, but not all. If you are small church guy, be one, with pride - there's nothing wrong with it. But don't bash the big church guys - they are good guys too.

Craig Groeschel has some good words on the matter here:
http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/2008/09/11/letting-...

When I slow-danced in Jr. High the teachers always told me to "make room for the Holy Spirit."

I'm not a big fan of focusing on "not being distracting." That takes the responsibility away from the individual worshiper and puts it on other people. People get distracted for all kinds of dumb reasons and it's a slippery slope.

"I couldn't worship I was too distracted by the slow song dancer."
"I couldn't worship I was too distracted by the guy raising his hands at the wrong time."
"I couldn't worship I was too distracted because there was no keyboards in the band today."
"I just could worship I was way too distracted by lady with a flower in her hat next to me. The hat was so ugly it just ruined my whole worship experience. And I tell ya, I could've worshiped just fine if it'd hadn't of been for her."

I'd rather focus on worshiping through distractions. How do we offer our hurts, frustrations and life problems up to God in worship instead of letting them be a indifference to us entering his presence corporately?

It's the individual's responsibility to engage in the corporate body - not the responsibility of the body or pastor or worship leader to cater to them.

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My favorite story is about the time a homeless guy tried to convince me he was in the army on shore leave and that he had gotten too drunk last night, left a CD with top secret military files on it in a prostitute's room and needed $50 so he could pay the prostitute and get his data back.

I saw through the charade (at that church I encountered the homeless on a daily basis) but I found out he scammed 2 other leaders in my church with the same story.

Unlike the Filmaker this guy was a pro and really made this unbelievable tale convincing.

Los,
This is so funny. My wife and I will seriously chat on google chat even if we're in the same room sometimes :) Of course we did meet on eharmony.com, so all of our early dates were over IM.

Now we go on real dates.

Fred,
The video sounds cool. Making it homegrown and local like that is awesome.

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