Monday, April 28
Sometimes you just never know what to expect…
What a wild and wacky day at Crossings…we were scheduled to finish our teaching series, “Losing My Religion” this past week. I had been in Orlando all week, so Bill (our worship/arts guy was scheduled to teach out of Colossians 3.About 7pm on Saturday I received a call from Bill, who was in Bloomington, Illinois on Friday and Saturday for a wedding, who promptly said, “Well, you’re not going to believe this…”
We had joked a week or so ago about how Bill better not miss his flight back to Knoxville on Saturday. I told him I’d make him teach via phone if that happened.
Well, I didn’t keep my promise.
His flight had been rescheduled but he hadn’t been notified, and when he arrived at the airport, the last plane of the day had already left. (say it with me, “never, ever fly AirTran”) You can read his account on his blog.
Anyway, after we rejected the idea of Bill having himself filmed in the airport and then posting the teaching on youtube to show the next morning, we decided it was best for me to go ahead and teach.
Now let alone the fact I was going to miss the rest of the NFL Draft on ESPN, the idea of preparing to teach the next morning without my usual 25+ hours of prep was not a popular idea in my head. But as I said the next morning, after we played the game “Where in the World is Bill Wolf”: “We’re going to have to trust even more than normal that God has got something He wants us to consider this morning… (and I think He did) …And we’re going to have to trust that God’s story is bigger than our plans… (which is always true)
There were many other things surrounding the morning that fall into that ‘you’ve got to be kidding me category’…including technical difficulties in kids and adults, my daughter feeling sick and hugging the porcelain god for a while, and Carrie Perkinson who missed a call from their husband, Jake, from boot camp when she stepped across the hall to unload a crate. (Her husband gets one 3-minute call per week and that was it.) (Postscript: God was good though and somehow Jake was provided with another call later in the day)
And yet it was a great day…And we can’t wait till next week to be in community and see what God has for us…(by the way, Bill is limited to a 20 mile radius around the theatre until next Sunday afternoon)
Mark Nelson at 2:57 PM 0comments