WEEKEND UPDATE (Extremely Late Edition)

Wow.  Reeeeaaaaally long day today.  Sorry to be so tardy in getting the update out.  It was a tremendous weekend with some off the charts wins.  But I was mostly sick as a dog throughout.  I thought I contracted beriberi, or yellow fever or some other dread disease while I was in Haiti last week, until I looked them up on Google and found out if it's what I really had, I'd be laying on the ground twitching, and foaming at the mouth.  Fortunately, most of my malady revolved alternatley sweating and freezing, and staying close to the restroom.  I've narrowed it down to brushing my teeth with Haitian tap water.  Oops.  I know.  TMI.  Deal with it.  Here's a few things I noticed about an AWESOME Sunday at Crossroads:

• Amazing amount of first-time attenders and quality eternal destination decision makers!!! Blown away by people's response to Sunday's message!!!
• GREAT to kick off our new series OUTTATIME!
• Loved teaching about End Times!
• When will it all happen?  We don't know so we gotta LIVE READY!
• The opening video by our crack creative, technical, video, CG team (Will, Justin, Max) was THE BEST FREAKIN' VIDEO I have ever seen in a church anywhere!  Guys, I've never even HEARD of a video piece that good in a church! WOW!!!!!!!!!
• Worship on Sunday was SMASHING!!  We are SO BLESSED at Crossroads to have the incredible worship leaders and musicians that we have.  Nic & Janna and the whole band bring it every week, and it gets better every week.  We need to remember how fortunate we are.  It is so rare for a church to have what God has given us!
• Billy Donegan built an AMAZING 3/4-Scale Back To The Future Delorean!  Will Reeves put it up in the air.  We have liftoff of the coolest stage prop I have ever seen!!
• The video, the props, the band, the lights, the plexiglass "whiteboard" with giant colored markers - all of it was SO COOL, but the coolest thing of all was being able to take 45 minutes and crack open a discussion about things like the Rapture, The Judgement Seat of Christ, The Tribulation, The Antichrist, Armageddon, the Millenial Reign, the White Throne Judgement...  People have SO MANY QUESTIONS about END TIMES and we're taking the time to talk about them!
• Amazing how many copies of the Left Behind books were sold.  End Times are BIG BU$INE$$!
• Amazing how many people think President Obama is the Antichrist. 
• Favorite Quote: "Instead of trying to identify who the Antichrist is, let's focus our attention on identifying and rooting out anti-Christ-like behavior in our own lives."

Love you all, and pray that God will use this series at Crossroads not just as a way to deliver INFORMATION about the End Times, but a way to bring TRANSFORMATION to our lives as we apply what we learn together!  Have a GREAT week!!