Our Senior Pastor was out of town doing a wedding for a family in our church, so he asked Michelle (my wife) and I to team up and handle last night’s evening service in his absence. We decided to use the Just Stop and Think video from Francis Chan for the teaching. The scripture reading for the night was 1 John 2:1-6. Michelle handled the congregational prayer and intro/outro for the video. I’m probably a little bias (ok, really bias) but she did a great job tying the scripture and video together and challenging the congregation to live like Christ. In the video, Francis Chan provides an approachable and comprehensive challenge to embrace the message that Christ died for us and that our lives should be lived out as a response to His love and grace. Definitely a great video for both believers and non-believers.

Check out the video and let me know what you think!

Order of Service

• Meet With Me
• Welcome & Greeting Time
• Unchanging
• Enough
• Prayer & Scripture (1 John 2:1-6)
• Just Stop and Think video
• Short talk connecting video and scripture
• Everlasting God
• Benediction

Music

We were running a little lighter than usual for the band (3-piece instead of the typical 5-piece). We went for a softer approach and did drums, acoustic, and bass guitar for most of the set. Changed it up on Enough and did 2 acoustics with brushes on drums. Overall, it was a nice change of pace and had some good energy to it despite missing the electric and keys.

Check out the Sunday Setlists blog entry on Fred McKinnon’s blog for more worship service recaps from this past weekend.