WEEKEND UPDATE (111410)

Good morning and happy Monday!  Had a great weekend at Crossroads.  Here's a few of the things that stood our from Sunday's service:

• LOVE seeing and meeting first-time attenders at Crossroads!
• Many came back for their second or third visit also!
• Loved worship!  Great job Nic, Caleb and band!
• Stuck my head in the Children's Annex Sunday.  Always so impressed at the unselfish work done by all the people back there!  Thank you so much for serving God and caring for the children of Crossroads parents!
• Lobby was electric Sunday morning.  Such great energy as people are meeting, greeting and hanging out.  You can tell it's working when people linger in the lobby instead of running to their cars after service.
• Baby Dedication Sunday!  What a cool experience getting to see and pray for so many children as their parents stepped up and comitted to raise them to be Christ-followers!  Way to go parents! And way to go church as you comitted to help and support them in their efforts to raise godly kids!
• Nothing like the local church when the local church is working right, and dedicating children to the Lord as a family of believers is the local church working right!
• Sunday's message was tough in both services.  It's hard to confront our own personal lack of patience and tendancy to get offended and be unkind to others.  having said that, some of the most patient and kind people I have ever met, I met at Crossroads!  I love that I get to go to church in such an accepting and forgiving environment!
• Quotable Quote #1 (also descibes Galatians): "We can't.  God can.  So let Him."
• I am so excited for our Thanksgiving Outreach, I'm about to bust.  But know this: It will not work with your involvement.  We need people to step up, to sign up, to give, to provide food, and to dig in to the awesome opportunity to share our lives and resources with others in our community.  I promise you, it will be an experience you will never forget.  You'll never look at Thanksgiving the same way.
• Quoteable Quote #2: "Patience is not passively waiting.  that's laziness.  But to keep going when the going is difficult and slow...that is patience".
• If you're not in a small group, remember that the message doesn't end on Sunday.  You can listen to the podcast and every Tuesday morning download helpful Small Group Resources by going HERE.
• Quoteable Quote 3: "Since we've decided to be done beating ourselves up for not measuring up, let's also be done beating up other people, too.  One of the ways we demonstrate God's goodness is by not demanding that others live up to standards we ourselves can't live up to."

Have a GREAT week!  Surprise yourself (and someone else) this week by doing the wise thing and overlooking offenses. "A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense" (Proverbs 19:11).