Movement

Today I was asked to accompany my close friend in leading worship at his local church. Since my home church wasn’t having service tonight I jumped at the chance to help a friend and experience something new. My home church is a church that does not claim any sort of denomination we as a body simply live for Christ. Now the church I attended tonight claims the ideas of southern babtist denomonation and because of that stereotype, I had preconceived notions about how tonight would unfold. As I arrived for rehersal I saw all of the men in their suit jackets, dapper-dan style hair, and ties, my thoughts started going towards the relgion based ideas I had about the babtist doctrine. That is until I met Charlie. Charlie is the college pastor at First Babtist Olive Branch, he greeted me with one of the largest smiles I have seen in a while. This guy was genuinely excited to not only meet me but just to meet people – I immediately felt at home. I’m not going to keep on with tedious details but this one encounter with Charlie shattered my ideas of babtist churches in general. As the night continued on I sat and listened as the the college group guys and girls shared about thier recent experiences at Passion cenference 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. My heart broke as I listened to thier stories and how God spoke to them each in an individual way. many of them wanted to reach out to people in intense ways. Even though I didn’t know a lot of them I was so proud of all of them. after the testimonies I was able to have a hand in one of the most refreshing worship experiences I have ever encountered. I loved being in that place tonight. through the people at FBOB God shattered my incorrect ideas about generalizing church groups. I saw truly that God is moving in more than incredible ways throughout the entire Christian population. Huge things are in the making.

goodnight