Marvin Gaye’s Impeccable Timing

I was in an important meeting a couple of days ago with the boss of my boss — i.e. our Sr. Pastor.  Things have been a little stressful around here at Hope — giving down, sanctuary to pay for, attendance up but not as much as we had hoped….  So, in my area of ministry, we are looking for ways to reach more people and encourage folks to go through our new members class.

Just when things were getting warmed up, and I was feeling the full pressure of my pastoral responsibly to grow the church — my phone rang.  Which would not have been a big deal — yes, I should have had it on vibrate but Craig’s phone had sounded off earlier so that was not a big deal.  The issue was that my wife was calling, and I had her customized ring on  —- Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On”.  As Craig figured out what the ring was, he laughed and said, “You know, I think I would answer that!”  Pretty funny.

Animation War

Just saw this cool animation at Kem Meyer’s blog.  Click on the image below and enjoy.

 

                                       

Spititual Gift of Dodgeball

When we have our folks take a SHAPE assessment, we get some pretty interesting answers. Our assessment tool has people look at descriptions of the basic spiritual gifts listed in Scripture (ie. teaching, serving, evangelism, etc…) and choose what they see as their spiritual gifts. Our directions are pretty straight forward:

1. Read the traits for each spiritual gift and underline each phrase that you think fits you.
2. Count the underlined traits in each category and record the total in the accompanying box.
3. Choose your top three gifts and record them on the Green Sheet on page 16.

Well, the answers we get back sometimes are pretty funny. Some of the spiritual gifts that folks have listed have included: “My Grandchild”; “Hard working”; “Talking”; “My Job”; etc… One thing I have never had anyone list is the gift of dodgeball.

Check out this video I found on Todd Rhoades’ blog. Pretty funny.