Awesome Feeling….

Saturday until about 7 p.m. is 100% for the family. Nothing changes this. I get to spend the entire day with them and I love it. At about 7 DeAnna quiets the house down, puts Avery to bed, and spends some one on one time with Ashlyn. At that time I go into the bedroom and just reflect on what is going to happen on Sunday. I review the service order, start picturing it in my mind and look at my sermon for the first time since Thursday morning. It is so nice to look at it with fresh eyes and be able to make last second changes.

Every Saturday we all go eat at the Waffle House. What can I say? I told you were are rednecks. The kids love it for some reason so we always go there. It is their choice and they ALWAYS choose Waffle House. I think it is the healthy meal of waffles, choclate milk, and getting to play the jukebox. We found a “hidden” Waffle House that is brand new that we go and eat at. Due to it’s location, we don’t have to worry about running into people we know and my family get’s all my attention. That is a rare thing already for us. We can’t go anywhere in town without running into people we know from pastoring The Stone and we love that! But Saturday is time for the family. So we go to our secret Waffle House.
I am now sitting here in the room now thinking about how awesome God is. I literally get so excited about Sunday mornings that it is hard for me to sleep on Saturday night. I love our church, it’s people, and everything we stand for. It is awesome that I get to do this for a living. One of my favorite things to do on Sunday mornings is get there about 6:00 a.m. after the set-up team has started and just walk around and think about how each of the people I see have had their lives changed through God using Ridge Stone. That is awesome.

I have worked for churches where I literally hated Sundays. That is a bad feeling. To think that God allows us to do this full-time blows my mind.

I truly stand surprised every Sunday that people would actually show up to hear a redneck from Dacula, Georgia try and teach God’s Word. Not only do they come but they dig it. That is cool.

Pastoring the greatest church in the world is an awesome feeling….