One for the (LW) History Books

Last Sunday was Father’s Day, and Kate and I believe it will be a Sunday that goes down in our (LW) family history.

You may read that with a bit of an eye-roll if you’ve been around the block a time or two with “church speak”.

Yes, we can be a bit prone to hyperbole from time to time – “you don’t want to miss this gathering/conference/retreat/event/opportunity”, “it’ll change your life”, and “this is going to be the best Sunday/workshop/gathering ever!” We tend to get excited about something and oversell it. We want people to show up so we make big claims to catch their attention! We mean what we say, but if you’ve heard it all, the first line of this writing may not catch your attention the way I’d like it to.

So allow me to break last Sunday down without exaggeration – we started the morning knowing it was going to be well over 100 degrees, we had a skeleton crew doing worship because so many people were out of town for Father’s Day, our live stream broke right at 10:00am and we didn’t start until close to 10:15! After we worked out those technical difficulties, more kept popping up and ruined the recording, and the livestream of worship. Did I mention it was super hot?

It wasn’t one of our more polished and professional mornings. But, we don’t exist to be polished or professional – we exist to know Jesus, make Him known, and create an environment where people can experience His presence, and that happened in incredible ways!