Monday Memo

Hi Five Oakers, Here are the comments from Communication Cards this past weekend:

• The music was “worship” full today. Sermon was full of solid, meaty, spiritual training. Amazing. [Yes, Tim, Libby and the team led us so well!]

• Amen.

• Great words Tim! Thank you for this message.

• Libby and gang, beautiful worship set – thank you for your service. Great message Tim. Great reminder that trying vs training/ will power us, habit will not get us there; and the value of it at the end. Loved the first duet during the response song “My Heart is Yours”, Nate and Libby.

• I loved the first song during the response.

• Great sermon today – powerful preaching! Treating yourself to Chipotle!! Go for double meat.

• Awesome worship today! Acoustic hymn time in the future.

• 7/52. 7 weeks. I’ll change to online next week. [Way to go on your goal of 52 weeks in worship!]

One More Thing

Hi Five Oakers, The weekend’s coming and there are a few things I don’t want you to miss:

The Weekend

Donald Miller, one of my favorite authors, kicked up a bit of a blog storm by saying he doesn't attend church services much anymore. He explains that he's not an audible learner and he doesn't connect with God through singing, so why go. I may or may not talk about this in my sermon this weekend, but I will speak to the idea that gathering for worship with a local expression of the body of Christ (his bride) is a low priority for followers of Christ.

Links You Might Like

// Here's the post by Donald Miller (who, incidentally, I will still love to read): "I Don’t Worship God by Singing. I Connect With Him Elsewhere." And here's a response to the comments on his blog: "Why I Don’t Go to Church Very Often, a Follow Up Blog."

// "5 Ways People Pleasing Can Undercut Your Parenting"

One More Thing

We have two more weeks in the Worship series. Next week is about worship and our spiritual formation. The last week of the series will explore the four movements of our worship service and how they reflect important elements of worship.

What's next? A four-week series on Elijah and then a 13-week series on Galatians. What's exciting is that our Group Life team has been writing all the studies ahead of time and we will publish the Group Life Galatians' study as a book.