I’ll let you figure out which is which…
- This afternoon Im headed to Colorado with Allen for a few days of whatever we can come up with in city and the mountains!
- Sunday night I left my brand new Canon digital camera in the booth at the Waffle House in West Columbia. (it obviously was not there when I went back)
Im sure you are familiar with the expression, which is a often a good description of things around Midtown. The most recent is in relation to our small groups. Sunday night we had our 3rd GroupLink, (we borrowed the name and concept from NorthPoint Church in Atlanta) which is simply a way of helping people who are wanting to grow in their relationship with Jesus get connected with other people who are wanting to do the same. The problem is, we had way more people show up than we had group leaders. Like I said – good problem to have, lots of people wanting to get more intentional about their relationship with God!
This past Sunday we crossed into some new territory with Midtown – multiple services. We had been pushing the capacity of the auditorium at the museum near the end of the summer and were of course expecting a few more people once the USC students were back. Multiple services was something I was personally hoping to avoid as long as possible, since it is tough on those who are involved in the service and of course all the volunteers. Things went really well however, and we had our largest attendance so far!
One thing our leadership team has been working on this summer is trying to plan ahead for any growth we might have. While of course we always want as many people as possible to come worship and hear about Jesus, with growth there is real difficulty in keeping the church relationally warm and accessable for people. We believe strongly that part of following Jesus is being in close fellowship with other believers who know each other well and can encourage and challenge each other. Like most churches we have small groups, but we want to go the extra mile in other ways as well. We want to continually model and teach the need for deep relationships and provide opportunities for people to connect with each other. This is critical to the spiritual health of our church.
I am excited to see what happens in the next few weeks. School will be back in full gear, we will see how having 2 services really works out, and we will be having our 2nd GroupLink. (small groups kickoff) My prayer during this “critical mass” time is that God will take our church wherever he wants it to go, and that he will give us the wisdom and humility to recognize and follow where he is leading us.
This past Sunday, myself and four other guys from our church were ordained. According to the dictionary, to be ordained means “to be appointed or admitted to the ministry of the Church.” It was a very cool time for our young church, to “officially” commission several of us to lead and pastor. Personally, it was a very powerful experience. To hear Dustin go over the Biblical qualifications of an overseer and to have people gather around us and pray for us was incredibly humbling. To think that we are responsible to God for leading this group of people in following him is a very serious, even scary thing to me. I hope and pray that God will guide our steps and guard us from the many pitfalls that we will encounter along the way. I pray that we will always keep our eyes on him and that Midtown will be a reflection of his power and not our own.
All you fans of The Office should check out this video introducing Clemson’s FCA leadership team. (Click here, or watch below.)
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Lee Cunningham
Columbia, SC
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