Emmaus Church

High Stakes.  Everything in church planting seems like it’s high stakes.  Send out a postcard?  It better work.  Do a Community Dinner?  Will anyone come?  Have a group meeting on the first nice day in months on a long weekend?  Do I even wanna be there?! 

For the next week and a half, life will be crazy.  Our first preview service is on tap.  There are lots of questions.  Will we have enough time for set-up?  What will we blow up? Will our postcard bring people to the service?  Will they like the music, sermon, or kid’s activities?  Will my message be relevant and engaging?  We won’t be a full-fledged church offering all the bells and whistles, but will it instill belonging and vision?  These are all questions that lay on top of my blanket when I go to bed at night.   

But, just maybe they’re the wrong questions.  Maybe the right questions are “have I prayed enough?”  Have I been a decent husband and dad lately?”  ”Have I planted God-seeds” through random acts of kindness in my community?  They’re all behind the scenes kinda stuff. 

So, in the days to come I’ll pray I won’t be a loser and check out of being a husband and dad, son-in-law, brother and brother-in-law to the people who are family in this busy time.