Prison Break

These 'Serial' dramas, (24, Prison Break) are killing my sleep patterns. Kendra came over and we watched 2 episodes, and to be good, she left, since we didn't want to stay up too late and watch...(it was around 11pm at the time)...what happens? I decide to watch for 5 more minutes.

3 hours later, it's 2am, I peel myself away from the TV, wash the dishes, clean up and go to bed around 2:30am. Then I remembered I had to wake up for a 7am breakfast with my pastor to plan out the activities for the next couple of months, and I inwardly cursed my lack of willpower and discipline. The bad thing? I'm running on 4 hours of sleep. the good thing? I actually made it to breakfast on time.

So no more prison break or 24 for me...they are AMAZING serial dramas and keep you wired to the edge of your seat...they are WAY too addicting for me to watch them all. bad bad bad.

On a more serious note, at breakfast today, we were talking about what kind of topics would draw people into thursday nights more. I couldn't help but think that when planning things, we need to walk a fine line between getting topics that just get people into the door, and which topics are the ones that NEED to be addressed in the congregation. It's not that they are mutually exclusive, but they are not always the same set of topics... As we are in ministry, we need to minister to the needs of the body, but what exactly are those needs? What if one night we talk about prayer and we have 50 people show up (we usually have 120) does that mean that we should talk about prayer less? Not necessarily, but it doesn't mean that we need to hammer that point home RIGHT NOW...that God has a timing for it.

I've come to realize that we do need to make sure we are relevant, but not at the cost of bringing people to a deeper understanding of God. Sure, we could do a ton of topics on sex, relationships and marriage to pack the people in, but would this be the RIGHT thing to do all the time? probably not...

ministry. when you are leading a ministry of any scale, you start to see the many issues that you are dealing with that you never really had to think of as a member...