There is one more thing that has been sticking in my mind today related to last weekend. It was the ownership and involvement of SRCers in seeing that great event take place. I was thinking back to the volunteer changes over the last year. We've moved from a one man show with a few highly taxed individuals to a much more shared model of ministry. For instance, within the last year my voice was the only voice heard from welcome to farewell. Sunday my voice was only heard during the message. That means service host and band handled everything and really released me to focus on what God has equipped me to do.
Within the last year, on occasion, I unloaded and set up every piece of equipment for the weekend by myself. This weekend I rolled boxes to their place and more volunteers than I counted put things in place and did it right.
Within the last year we had a Friend Day that I planned by myself (poorly). Sunday happened because of a service planning team that is working hard to provide the most creative experiences possible, and are exercising responsibility and accountability to see great services happen.
In so many ways Sunday was an example of our church embracing Ephesians 4 as our model of ministry. In January I spent a month preaching the same sermon four weeks in a row. But this year we have really embraced it.
There were some things on Sunday that were examples of the way things could be, though not necessarily how they consistently are at SRC. That's ok; I'm looking forward to how the rest of the year goes in developing an even greater church of shared ministry.
--Ben
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