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Following the HUGE weekend last week, there was great momentum flowing to carry us into the conference we were hosting at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. And regardless of your views of Kenneth Copeland, hosting one of his conferences was always going to be a big deal for a small(ish) church.
And I must say, the conference was awesome – in the true Biblical sense of the word.
But this post isn’t about the conference (which was Thursday to Saturday). This is about worship in my local church on Sunday. Just like it normally is. The conference will likely be blogged either here or over at Diane’s place sometime soon.
This morning was my RDO. These seem to come around really quickly, but I get blessed so much by the team that I look forward to the off-stage opportunity more and more.
We had Rev Michael Flowers preach, which was one of those examples of serendipitous circumstance that I love to share in. Michael serves KCM as the head usher for the conferences, which consumes the vast majority of his time, though he also has his own fledgling ministry. He preached a message of love today unlike any I have ever heard. It spoke right to my heart, and given some news we had heard earlier, this helped focus our thoughts and our prayers, while also being a beautiful summary of the marvelous time we had shared in over the preceding three days at conference.
In fact, to describe church this morning as a LoveFest would not be exaggerating at all. We are so blessed to be part of such a beautiful family. But don’t for a minute think I’m saying that we’re perfect or anything like that. Just read my prior worship posts. We’re still human, but I can see tangible differences, renewal, restoration, unity…love.
Music
Sunday AM
1. What The World Will Never Take (Crocker, Ligertwood, Sampson / Hillsong)
2. Your Name High (Houston / Hillsong)
3. Stronger (Morgan, Fielding / Hillsong)
4. Worthy Is The Lamb (Murgida / Harbourside)
…then following tithes, offerings, news…
5. this was going to be Your Name High…but the way the service went, no song was needed
…and for the ministry/end of service
6. This Is Our God (Morgan / Hillsong)
Margaret led today, and did a great job leading the youth team. It’s great to have dependable, servant-hearted people to do church and life with. She also wrote the 4th song we did today. It is beautiful and I’m looking forward to recording it in the coming months.
There seemed to be a technical issue with our front fill speakers, but I didn’t get a chance to look at them today – so that’s a task for the week that I will be getting one of my service techs (from work) to check them out.
While Ken was preaching at Hillsong for the evening service, Diane and I took advantage of the last of our weekends without a night service to visit my convalescing mum (staying with my aunt and uncle on the upper north shore of Sydney) and spend some time with a few of my cousins as well. It was great to see mum improving more and more…though after seven weeks away from home (a 9 hour drive away), she’s keen to get back there, which will hopefully happen in two weeks’ time…
