Thoughts from the Weekend

A big sigh...  It feels like the last 24 hours has seen a lot of technical gliches in the matrix as we've carried out our work at Grace.  It's been an awesome weekend as far as the final product, what people see and hear, the final result.  But behind the scenes it's been busy and a little crazy!  Last night our worship band played at Holiday on the Drive.  When you play outdoors it's not going to be as good of a stage mix as it would indoors, but then the sound crew that the festival organizers had hired wouldn't allow our sound engineer to run the board.  On the stage we were all feeling like it wasn't ideal but it went off OK.  What we heard from those who watched and listened was that it was absolutely awesome and we sounded great.  

So after we had personally lugged half of our sound system back to the church we went out to pizza with our friends, Chad and Hilary.  Then I got some fitful sleep and headed to the church this morning.  It was one of those mornings, more than I've ever personally felt, where tons of little things aren't going well and it starts to get on your nerves.  We kept on getting feedback when we hit G# on the bass, we were minus one monitor that we can't seem to get to work, I forgot the worship guides at the office in all of last night's craziness trying to pack up, etc....    

After it all, from what I gather, things came off really well. The first service went really well, we sounded good, the Spirit was there and things really came off well.  I believe God did some real movement in people's hearts.  The second service I think went pretty well too, it's just that my guitar was accidently muted for about 1 and 1/2 songs.  Guess it's just a reminder that what Jesus does on Sunday mornings or any other day of the week will happen even if it's not all right technically.  He just wants our hearts in the right place.  I think a lot of hearts are in the right place at Grace, and I hope and pray for that to be more and more evident in our church.  And in my heart.