“Jump nine times to the left!”

While there were so many great moments in last weekend’s service at Mariners MV, it is those words I’ll remember most vividly. Our guest from Kenya, Kanjii, challenged me to think differently about worship than I ever have. As we sang last weekend, it was wildly participatory, unashamedly celebratory, and fun. We sang and we worshipped. God was evident in a way normally inaccessible for the “rhythmically challenged” among us.

During the third week of the Christian? series, Doug called us to release the “act” of being a Christian and to embrace the “actions” of being a disciple.  It is such an encouragement that so many of you are taking that idea seriously. People are signing up in droves to be a part of the Be Fearless campaign serve projects we initiated two weeks ago. If you’re still looking for a way to serve, check out howtobefearless.org/serve.

Now, as we turn to this coming weekend, we’ll confront one of the most significant obstacles to God-at-work in the world. It will be a great weekend to bring friends who are tired of the church, longing for a new message, and perhaps relate to this quote from Steve Jobs: “The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it”.

Excited about what God is doing in our midst,

Jeff