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Sunday Recap

Here's some notes from today's service.

Message: Part four of Issues, and we talked about porn. The message was actually via video produced by xxxchurch.com as a part of Porn Sunday. There's no service video to post, but we will post a lot of resources at oakleafgroups.com. Next week, we wrap up the Issues by talking about Divorce.

Attendance: 773. Down a little from recent weeks but still a 303% increase over the same Sunday last year. We were missing some of our key volunteers, so tear down was a pain today. I hope everyone is back next week.

Music: Let God Arise (Tomlin), One Way (Hillsong), Rescue and Amazing Love (old school) to end the service. Will and the guys did a great job on Dirty Little Secret by The All American Rejects to lead into the message.  Last week, it was country.  Today, a nice little punk rock vibe.  Will even hit the high notes.

Notes: We actually worked Miss Teen South Carolina into the video, since our new home beginning on October 7 will host Georgia's version of that event.   Finally, it might only be pastors and other church leaders that understand this.  While I can't point to anything specific, today just didn't feel right.  I go through a checklist when stuff like this happens, but I can't explain it.  The whole day, from setup to the service to take down, just felt weird.  It was strange.

Sunday Stats

Series: Issues
Topic: Can you be a Christian and drink a cold beer? I'll post the audio, video, transcript, and discussion questions to Oak Leaf Groups.
Attendance: 843 people. A great crowd on a great day. It was the highest attendance we've had on a non-Limelight day. Since our student ministry has a service once a month, it always throws off the attendance norms. All three services had great attendance. We've got two more weeks at the movie theater before we move to Woodland High School on October 7.
Songs: One Way (Hillsong), Salvation is Here (Passion) and another of Will's originals.
Highlights: There were so many. Chris and the band did a great job singing a Kenny Chesney song. We've been using songs and videos to set up these issues talks, and since we were talking about drinking, we had to go country.  (I think they are all about drinking.) They even matched it up with the actual music video. For some reason, I made a lot of jokes today.  I got in fun jabs at deacons, home schoolers and the entire state of Tennessee.  We also showed a little intro to Woodland video to close the service that turned out to be pretty funny for some reason.  Lastly, I walked into one of the kids classrooms during the third service and saw a kid sitting down crying.  I asked him "what's wrong" and he said "I don't want to leave and my mom is making me."