This blog is fading

I am aware I haven't posted I have been busy for this I am sorry.

I shall post a life changing post soon, but since I am never at my computer.

(yes I know what you are thinking, and no i do not know who Mike Omputer is)

In the meantime,

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Batman Vs. Bibleman

Ok let us be real honest for a second and say Batman is the greatest super hero in the history of the galaxy (and for all you Superman advocates you can shove it) Batman is totally my favorite, but as Christians we cannot let our children watch such horrible shows such as Batman, we must make a knock off... Thus Bibleman was born, fighting the enemy with the armor of God. (yes cheesy I know) what is even worse is that the quality is so poor. I mean really people if you want to combat something like Batman you should at least make it look like it wasn't filmed with a $4 digital camera or a cell phone camera. Put some work into it. Now I do not know if you have ever watched Bibleman, I will go ahead and say I saw it live and I had a poster (REPRESENT!) Right next to my Batman poster! What if they battled? Would Batman or Bibleman prevail... Let us find out.

1. First battle point goes to... Batman.

Batman leaped from a skyscraper crashed through a window and beat up about 15 guys and then hooked on a plane and flew back out of the window he came in, top that Bibleman... He cannot. Batman was trained by the League of Shadows, whilst Bibleman was just some rich guy who chose to be a superhero... hmmm familiar sounding... Oh ya Batman is exactly the same. batman has cooler gadgets though and if it came down to the fist fight to death, batman would surely have the upper hand.

2. Second battle point goes to... Bibleman

He has a black sidekick, you cannot beat that. Robin is little sissy girl (especially in that God awful movie Batman and Robin) until of course he becomes Nightwing who is simply off the hook. Conrad (Bibleman's sidekick) is actually decent and can hold his own... Oh and did I mention he is diverse, which gives Bibleman the nod on this one.

3. Third battle point goes to... Batman.

Ah here we are, gadget time. Basically Bibleman and Batman are the same minus a few differences. Both are rich and chose to be good vigilantes to save their selected cities, both have gadgets and what not, but Batman is superior. He has everything and have you seen the Batmobile lately? Bibleman's $7 dollar lightsaber he confiscated from a child in church does not match up to the awesomeness of what is Batman all around, and really Bibleman, a lightsaber? That makes me mad on so many levels because he has not been trained in the Jedi arts. HE HASN'T! I know what you are thinking, Luke had his Lightsaber before he finished all his training. blah blah blah, Luke Skywalker saved this galaxy impending doom, the only thing Bibleman has saved us from is laziness. So in the end Batman would destroy the lightsaber and slice open Bibleman with his batarang end of story.

4. The fourth point goes to Bibleman

He is a christian superhero and since this is a christian blog I have to give him props for that, although considering how opposed to homosexuality we are in the church, could we have picked a gayer looking superhero... More to come later. He does serve Jesus and puts on the armor of God, so since God is helping him he would have Batman there.

5. The fifth point goes to Batman.

Bibleman wears purple which is super gay. Batman wears slick black and it looks PIMP. Therefore, everyone would agree Batman based on sheer looks would win.

6. THE WINNER IS BATMAN

Come on guys, did you expect different... Batman faces off with people like the Joker and two-face, the toughest foe Bibleman faces is the Lord of Greed. So in the end Batman would win out because he is pure awesome. Bibleman does have like 4 sidekicks which is a bit much, but maybe if he didn't carry that lightsaber and wear purple he would be better. It wouldn't even be a fight. Batman wins out in this one... Better try next time Bibleman, maybe you should get a producer.

But be on the watch out for the upcoming movie Bibleman versus Damien:The Child from Hell, set to release this year... Will it be better than the Dark Knight?

HAHAHAHA no, it won't even be close.

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After Sermon Thoughts

First of all thank everyone who has responded to me about my message tonight, for those of you who did not see it, I am going to attempt to post it online, which should be cool if it actually happens. I had so many twitters, texts, and phone calls about how touched they are. Thank you, but it wasn't me, it was all GOD and I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
This just confirms I need to be in ministry period.

I talked about getting people to act for the Lord, Normal christians and why we suck. I simply talked about how we don't do anything at all as Christians and how one day we will have to answer to God about all the people we have we didn't reach. How we will have to watch person after person be cast into hell because we can't get over our pride and fear to even talk about our JESUS to our closest friends and relatives.

Anyway, I am so drained right now I can barely function.
I LOVE JESUS!!!!

Amen

Preaching. Wednesday. Be there.

So I am speaking at North Park on Wednesday and you should come.

1. Both T.I. and JT will be there.
Actually I doubt they will actually come, but they might get a shout out, and who knows me and T.I. are pretty close and he will be a meager thirty minutes away so he might show his face.

2. Worship will rock.
The rumor is they are singing Healer by Hillsong which totally is my favorite worship song right now.

3. Jesus will be there.
That is a given I think, Jesus Lives at church.

4. It will be fun.
Just come you know you want to
And whoever gets Anne Jackson to come gets bonus points and all my love.

Why I have a crush on Anne Jackson

Ok first things first, just look at how cute this picture is, not only is Anne Jackson a beautiful creature of God she is posing next to a girl who is from another country, this just shouts "I LOVE JESUS AND I'M HOT!" Yes I know this may seem silly, and only Jesus himself knows how embarrassed I will be is Anne happens to grace this blog with her wonderful presence (and somehow I just know Pete Wilson, who follows me on twitter, will tell her about it and here she comes marching down the internet highway to my site and then see how madly in love with her I am and it could just get awkward and we could never get married and start a family band and travel across the country, then what would I do with my life!) So anyway, if you do not know who Anne Jackson is, she is on staff at Cross Point Church and is the author of Mad Church Disease. I love her and here is why.

1. Flowerdust.net rocks my socks off.
Ok if you aren't as obsessive about reading awesome blogs as I am, then maybe you have not quite come around to hers yet because you are too busy browsing Tonymorganlive.com for the 100th time that day to notice the beauty and wonderment that is flowerdust.net. I frequent this blog quite often (and if you want to go there now, after you finish this post of course, click on her name to your left and it will take you right there.) This blog is full of insight and I love to read it. Anne Jackson truly has an awesome heart for the Lord and if my blog is the only one you read, forsake reading mine and just hang out on hers, not only can you grow, but you can look at her pretty face.

*Side note: this is gotten out of hand I know she is married, but in the Christian World we don't have that many girls whome we can hang posters above our beds of, minus Ruth of course, but my Ruth poster is getting tattered so I figure it is time to replace it with Anne Jackson. A guy can dream right?

2. Her books looks like it will be awesome.
I just finished reading Killing Cockroaches by Tony Morgan and my book Mad Church Disease By Anne Jackson is somewhere in the mail, you know how Amazon can be, and so when it gets here I am going to tear it up. There is a sample chapter on her blog which rocks my socks, and you should go read it, or just borrow the book from me when I am done, either way. Or order it from this link
http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Church-Disease-Overcoming-Epidemic/dp/0310287553/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235452741&sr=8-1

3. She is on staff at Cross Point.
Do I even need to elaborate? Cross Point rocks my socks off! (Twice I have used the phrase rocks my socks off in this post) If you have spent anytime around me listening to me talk about the religious figures I really really like, you know Pete Wilson is high on my list (and I could have done why I had a crush on him, but God would have smited me in a second for even alluding to a homosexual thought) so I thought better of it. If you aren't familiar check them out right here
http://www.crosspoint.tv/
Lifechurc.tv just wishes they were as cool.

4. She has a great heart.
If you are in the Alanta area for Catalyst One Day then you should stay in for off the blogs because she will be there with Jon Acuff and Pete Wilson and it will absolutely rock.
I love her, I just hope I can find someone as awesome as her one day to marry...
Any takers?

Wow this just turned into an advertisment for Anne Jackson. Hey what can I say the perfect Proverbs 31 woman deserves a post like this.
Love Anne Jackson and you should too

Killing Cockroaches by Tony Morgan a Formal Review by CJ Carr

I follow Tony Morgan on twitter and when I saw that I had a chance to get his book for free, I had to jump on it. Right from the beginning I could tell I was going to love every minute of it, but then he threw me for a loop because the book basically consists of a bunch of random ideas thrown together into one book. (In his defense he does preface this in the introduction but it is not what I expect from a book) The book though has such great insights on life, especially when it comes to churches, every aspect of church is mentioned in this book, including the oh so important website building, and since one day I aspire to have a church of my own I found this book to be one awesome read and very insightful. One of my favorite chapters was the one about finding that Mrs. Right. Being a single guy I enjoyed hearing about marriage and about finding that special person that is right for me. If you are looking for a book that has one giant overlying point that is brought together over 200 pages then this probably is not the book for you, but I think YOU should pick up this book because it is 100% pure awesome, especially if you plan to have a church of your own, or just to be a leader in a church because Tony is one of the most brilliant people I know, and New Spring just happens to be one of my favorite churches in the world. So I urge you to pick up a copy of it today, well or at least pre order it, because when I got my sweet PDF copy I could not stop reading it. It is like eating an ever changing piece of fruit, every bite tastes different and that is what I love about this book. Usually books can wear you down, beating the same dead horse they have been talking about for 50 chapters over and over again, but this book is the exception. So please if you are a church leader or wanting to be one, pick this book up because Tony will guide you in the path of an awesome church. It talks about culture and how that affects the church today, unlike the church of the past where the church was the ONLY thing going on, now a days we have to deal with all this extra stuff and we as a church need to break out of the mold and become the church of the present not the church of yester year. Also for all you lifechurch.tv fans out there, there is an interview with Craig Groeschel and many other innovative church leaders, which equals awesome. Overall I would give this book a 4.5/5 stars (I would make a sweet little star thingy, but sadly I do not know how to do that) Great read, Great Insight, Great Guy. Order your copy today at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805447857/tonymorgan-20
You won't regret it I promise.

Why keep killing cockroaches, forever bogged down in the mundane and small details, when you could be making a big impact with your leadership and life?

Living in the flesh = being chained down by the law.

12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh-- 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” Romans 8:12-15

We have been set free by the grace of GOD! How come then we continue to live in the flesh? We are not controlled by the flesh, for the flesh chains our souls like the souls of slavery, and yet we continue to go back to the evil master that controls our lives. How silly is it to be set free from slavery and then adopted by the most loving and compassionate Father who will give you everything you have ever dreamed, and then forsake him and willingly go put your chains back on? It is ridiculous to think we will be happier in the chains of the flesh (although we might be for a season) but what is a season compared to an eternity of living for him? Nothing at all. We have been set free, Jesus, he who had no sin, became sin on our behalf so we might be able to come into a fellowship with the Father, and we have spit in his face.  Paul states (Romans 7) that the very thing he does not want to do, he does. This is so true in our lives, time after time we say "Jesus today I am starting to live for you, the sins of the past are gone from me, I have broken the bond" Or have we, isn't it vein to tell God we broke the sin that once controlled our lives? Especially if we never even asked him to help us, and one day we just decided to give it up. I tell you this, you will fail and fail miserably, because God will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can handle, but you will be tempted and unless you ask GOD himself to set you free, you never will be free. 

Jesus took us away from the law, Jesus gave us a way to be in full fellowship with him, such as Adam and Eve in the garden, and yet time and time again we forsake his name, we sin in his presence, and we don't even bear fruit for him. Can we really say we are Christ followers when all we do is forsake him and bear no fruit? Surely not! We cannot use Jesus as our "Get out of hell free card" for this is not the purpose of him dying on the cross! Or do you not care that Jesus was punished brutally for ALL of our sins, every single one of them, and you may think that is the reason we sin, and I tell you, it is not ok to sin even though  you are forgiven. Do you think GOD would honor such a thing? "Dear Jesus please forgive me for this sin I am about to commit, but I know you already forgave me so it is ok for me to spit in your face and forsake your name just for a few minutes, because you always take me back." YOU LUKE WARM CHRISTIANS! In no way is that honoring to the one who saved us! Think of the faith of Abraham and how he almost sacrificed his son to honor GOD! What do we do everyday to honor GOD? Do we even take more than two minutes before each meal to thank him for providing? Or more than a 30 second prayer before we go to sleep? Without him we do not live, without him we are once again chained down by the law.

So here it is, no more sugar coating. Jesus was slaughtered for your sins, and you can't even take 15 minutes when you wake up to spend time with him! You need to spend much more time with him than that, but when did we become so proud and so self righteous that we decided we can do it ourselves?

I challenge you to begin living for him

Witness to someone this week.

Thank You @JesusChrist for being so twitterrific (and up to date on all the other cool things too)

Ok yes I did find this random shot of Jesus' twitter page, and I began to wonder... Who on Earth would make a twitter so heavenly and so blasphemous at the same time? Well I do not know but I think it is very silly, and so I am going to blog about it because that seems to be the thing to do lately is blog about Jesus twittering. So I have no random order of these things I am just throwing out these points and they could be related, they could not be, and please wait until after you have finished reading to twitter @cjcarr AMEN!

1. Praise @JesusChrist for being so holy

As you may very well know, twitter has swept the nation, and I will not lie, I have one myself and I love it, and since everyone (and I mean everyone, including two of my best friend's mothers) has a twitter I thought we could incorporate it into churchly things. I know tons of pastors, including mine, and religious figures have a twitter so we could have church everyday via twitter. "Dear twitter nation, this is your pastor and I want to remind you how awesome @JesusChrist is for saving us." "@randompastorwhotwitteredthatJesusbitofencouragementtomeonanonchurchday AMEN!"

We could even get the catholics involved and start confessing our darkest sins to our priests, "@mydearpriest I have committed the sin of murder today, please ask forgiveness for me." We could even twitter in church (don't lie I know all the people that use the Youversion Bible on their phone check/send a twitter at least once during church, I mean Jesus has one so it has to be ok... right?) If the preacher makes a good point just twitter at him, we could even have a live feed of all the twitters on the screen behind him, it would really encourage participation, and when there is a visitor just twitter at them as they leave @firsttimevisitor thanks for coming! come back and see us. Also the criticism of church could be expressed out loud over Twitter so everyone knows how much of a selfish hater that you are, not just the lucky people who happened to go to church with you, this will keep the church much more honest. Twitter was made by God, I am sure of it.

2. I like my Jesus with '87 Jeans and a Fresh pair of nikes on.

That is right, I just referenced an Usher song in a blog post about Jesus, go ahead say something because Jesus has my back and yes I believe Jesus is an Usher fan, even though he prefers Kanye West, I mean who doesn't?

God is my boy, and so I like to picture him just like me rolling in the ride and bouncing with our hydrolics and sweet gangster rap. So blast that ghetto music in church, Jesus is ok with it as long as you buy the clean version from Itunes, because Jesus isn't all about that crazy filth language. (btw this approach as portraying Jesus works best if you have a church somewhere in the ghetto) Remember if you have old white people in your church be very very careful before you start wearing chains and blasting T.I. During church.

3. Jesus as Michael Scott.

Enough Said

4. Jesus loves movies.

Answer this question: What is Jesus' All time favorite movie?

A. The passion of the Christ

B. Star Wars

C. Old School

D. Dawn of the Dead

If you answered B you would be correct. So go ahead have the church sponsored Star Wars marathon where you watch 1-6 in one glorious day and praise Jesus during every lightsaber battle. Yes movies are awesome to incorporate during church and if your congregation doesn't like it I am sure that they will twitter about it, so I guess it is up in the air. Although do pray really hard before you yell "WE"RE GOING STREAKING!" in the middle of the service and then take of running while trying to peel out of a three piece suit, David may have ripped his clothes, but that was in mourning and repentance, not in some spur of the moment good time during the middle of the service because you notice 76% of the people are asleep.

We need to reach people, why not these ways.

What about you? Do you have any great ideas for church growth?

Punishment of the Saints

 But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation , and do not be troubled ,  but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;  and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. 1 Peter 3:14-16

Here we are, "American" Christians- crippled by the fact we have never had to be punished for serving our Lord and Savior who was beaten and bruised for our sins even though he had none. Do we know what to do if we actually were challenged by our faith? Most of us grow up in christian homes, go to school were mostly everyone goes to church, maybe go to a christian college, and then go work in a christian place, and some of us can go our whole lives without actually even coming in contact with a non believer. Where we live we are all about surrounding ourselves with people who will affirm our beliefs. We hang out with people who listen to the same music, like the same movies, read the same books, and serve the same God, but could we survive if we were thrown into a God-hostile atmosphere? Could we be able to stand on our beliefs if we were being attacked from every side with the pure fury of the devil? I am not sure I could.

I have experienced this one time in my life, a god hating co worker of mine who knew absolutely nothing about God but insisted that he knew EVERYTHING there was to know. I couldn't argue with this guy, I couldn't talk to this guy, I mean I could barely stand to be around him because all he did was try to cut down what I believed. I showed him the love of Christ and now we happen to be pretty good friends, but he is a work in progress, I urge him to at least come to church one time to see what it is like, but Sunday's are days off, so no time for church.- as he says. The more I pray for him and think about him the more my heart is heavy for him, I yearn to have him know Christ, but he refuses in every since.

But I PRAISE GOD for putting me through these trials. I wish I would really be tested one time, I wish GOD would be banned from America and I would have to hide out, to go against all odds to serve my God, maybe even to the death...

But could I?

If our lives were on the line would we have the same passion for GOD as we do now?

That is a hard question...

Would you lose your life for the one that lost his for you.

To think that if you were the only one who ever got saved JESUS would still have died on the cross?

Wow. That is a tough statement.

God calls us to take up his cross and follow him, but what does that mean? We don't know what it feels like to carry the burden of God, we sit at home listening to our christian music, talking to our christian friends, going to our christian churches and nothing is ever hard for us, but what if it was backwards and everything was hard, we were hunted like animals, people despised us for our faith, and there was no organized religion we could feed ourselves with once a week...

Could we believe?

Could you forsake everything you have for HIM? Could you lose your life for him?

Tis a tough call to follow but it is GOD's calling for our lives.

So first things first, befriend a non christian, don't go door to door trying to witness to people, develop a genuine relationship with them, earn their trust and they will see the way eventually., but we cannot expect lost people to just walk into church or be converted by a complete stranger at the doorstep, Jesus befriended the worst of the worst, but can we step out of our "holier than thou" shell for five seconds and actually have a relationship with a lost person, instead of judging and condemning to hell? The church is weak, full of fat christians who do nothing but feed themselves instead of reaching the world.

Let us get out there and do the call of Jesus instead of being complacent with our lives.

Without him we would have no life.

So will you take up your cross today?

Pimping out the Meet N' Greet

Everyone knows that the meet n greet is the most important time of the church service, you get to actually talk to the people sitting around you instead of awkwardly staring at them from the corner of your eye or the weird turn and look during the service. For the youth it is the perfect time to send that last text message before using the cell phone gets you the death stare from the deacons or the piano player's husband. Some people utilize the meet n greet time to sneak into to church late, because well, they were late so they sneak in, which is the last good chance to come in, because everyone hates walking in on prayer or worship, especially at a Baptist church because all the back row seats are taken. So the meet n greet is the best chance to greet that first time visitor and get them to come back, so we need to pimp it out and here are my suggestions.

1. There needs to always (and I mean always) be an explosion.
This may seem silly, but think about the flocks of people that have watched the Bourne series over and over again (and yes I admit I have seen all three of those movies about 100 times a piece) because of the awesome explosions. The pastor could be fighting demons at the start of the welcome by blasting there brains out with sweet guns while falling down a flight of stairs only to land in a mini cooper and then weave his way through the church body to launch himself out just in the nick of time as his car explodes in fury. (if you could pull that off, I would be mucho impressed and would then come to your church for all time) Think of the people that would be scared crapless and willing to come back for more, I mean why do the movies make so much money? Explosions. What gets people coming back to church? Explosions.

2. Incorporate hip lingo.
SO if the pastor drops sweet phrases such as "off the hook" or "fo sheezy fo cheezy" and then blasts Ludacris through the church speakers people would be begging to come to your church, in this instance though the conflict of dirty pop culture and old school religion plus the mass amounts of people trying to come to your church, would probably result in an explosion, which would be awesome (see point one)

3. Shake with the Left hand.
This just throws everything into a giant mess, people don't know how to handle it. Maybe put your right hand in a cast and force people to shake with the left hand, it makes it much more interesting and fun

4. Maybe have a bounce around
Having a giant bounce around in the middle of the sanctuary would be a great way to get people to come back to church, such as the deacon throwing an elbow drop on a first time visitor and then welcoming them to church. Who doesn't bond in those giant overpriced moon bounces? Also, it would give all those kids who aren't quite young enough for nursery but not quite old enough for church something to do during the service.

5. ALWAYS, and I mean always introduce yourself as Scott Speedman
Scott Speedman is the shiz. Enough said.

So those are the ways to get people back to church for that pivotal second Sunday, but really greet the visitors and show them the Love of Christ.
How can we reach people when we aren't even nice to them?

God is awesome

Create in me a clean heart Oh God...

And renew a right spirit within me

God is really pushing me through something right now...

It is tough on me, but I know there is a purpose.

He has set me free.

How awesome is that?

Tomorrow I start Exodus and continue through Romans and Psalms

I better buckle my belt

Sorry for the short post, I just wanted you to know how awesome GOD WAS!!!!!

BTW, read proverbs 31 today... you ladies have quite a task ahead of you

In him

The Impact of Avril Lavigne on the Church

Ok first things first, don't laugh at me and my obsession of Avril Lavigne, well you may laugh now if you would like... Ok now that that is out of your system let us move on.

Number 1: Reaching People

During this time of our crippling economic crisis (and a vicious ice storm of Death for those of us in the south around Arkansas) more people are starting to come to our churches and what better way to get people to stay after every preacher in the country is done doing there "How Jesus can get you out of your economic crisis" series and I have the answer, an entire series based on Avril Lavigne. I know what you are thinking, this guy is absolutely nuts, but no I am not, because if we incorporate the punk princess into our churches think of the millions of people who would come flocking to our doors- it would be standing room only! We could start with something from the Let Go era of Avril such as doing an entire sermon based on "I'm with you" the praise band could even open up the service with their own cover version of the song. (I could just see the music ministers getting up and introducing that! Can you imagine all the angels that would lose their wings? Or better yet all the old people that would pass out?) But it has such a great implication, "Such a damp cold night... Trying to figure out this life... Take me by the hand take me somewhere new, I don't know who you are but I'm, I'm with you" You could just make Jesus that awkward person creepily hanging out around the bridge in the middle of the night while Avril sings her heart out. Think of all the people that would repent and give their lives over to Jesus, and then after church and after they pick up a bucket of KFC Chicken, the flocks of people who would storm to the neighborhood Hastings to pick up that classic first album. Then move on to the Under My Skin era and kick it off with a little "My Happy Ending" and tell the people how Jesus can be that for them. Not only would it bring youth and fresh faces into your church, the faithful few will be confessing every sin they have ever done, can you say Great Awakening Take Three? Then on that fateful last sermon bring in Avril herself (or someone who looks really really close) and have a concert in the neighborhood performing arts center and let her lead worship, and then tag team with the rest of the pastors on staff and do a joint sermon on how we need to reach the world like Avril has... This will be great and if you actually do a sermon series on Avril, I would be happy enough to actually die and go to Heaven.

Number 2: Church Battles

Yes yes we know all the pastors in the world have watched "You Got Served" I cannot lie to you I have it on DVD and watch it every night before I go to sleep (followed by listening to a whole Avril album because she soothes my soul and I cannot go to sleep without hearing her voice, who can?) So church battles, we all know how the Fifth Community Church always has beef with the 7th Freewill Baptist of God Washed By the Blood Church, so when these churches meet for there monthly "You Got Served" showdown they could simply incorporate Avril songs to enhance the battle. "Hey Hey you you I don't like your churches, ya ya ya think you need a new one" and of course thought when the First Baptist Church rolls up and sings their version of "Things I'll Never Say" everyone will then convert and the FBC will have to build a church big enough to hold the whole town

Number 3: Church Attire

Yes indeed if Avril was brought into the church we would then be able to shove our old suits into the back of the closet and bring out those rocker clothes we secretly wear on Saturday nights when we are home alone while we are rocking out to Avril. Everyone knows every music minister likes to pretend they are rockstars anyway so why not let them put on a little eye liner and a half ripped rocker shirt that looks like it is stained with Jesus' blood? I think it would rock. We could even equip every church with concert lights and giant speakers so loud you couldn't hear the person next to you, although we would have to control the attire of girls though because you know it might get out of hand, but what lost person wouldn't love to walk into a church full of people dressed like Avril? I know I would.

Number 4: Bringing this generations churches over that bloody hill

During these days we are struggling to keep a christian stronghold in this nation and with Avril at the helm we could finally take over once again. She would push us to reach lost people and clean out ourselves and repent, also along the way if we all find a skater boy/girl then it is a win win for everyone involved! So I plead to you. Bring Avril into YOUR church today.

Just bring it up in the next business meeting.

I think we should combine all the churches and make Avril president of them all.

Think of the lost souls that would be saved.

Therefore I say, Avril Lavigne is the key to reaching lost people. Period.

Tonight

Tonight I start something new, something wonderful, something real. Tonight I have my first practice playing in the youth worship band. Often I have been told that I am wasting my talent and that I need to be glorifying God with that and with the push of a certain married couple whom I love with all my heart I am now starting to play guitar and sing for the youth praise band. Often I find myself running away from God in such a way that I don't ever want to serve him with what he has given me, but with the recent eye opening that running from him is never a good option I have decided to do all I can for him starting tonight. I love my Lord Jesus and if through my actions just one person would grow closer to him or just one person would come to know him I will be satisfied. What a glorious thing it is to serve the Lord! GOD IS AWESOME!!! and Until North Grace Spring Park Point Church is started I will do all I can to serve him in my home church.

GOD IS AWESOME!!!

HE WILL REIGN FOREVER!

Longing for God

I need God in my life
I am thirsty
I am Weak
I need him to renew in my heart a love for him
Such as he loved us

I disgrace his name everyday because I do not love him like I should
Like he deserves
Today will be a new DAY

Today I will walk in the Barbarian Way
Today I will take up his cross
Today I will shed all my Doubts
All My Fears
Everything I hold onto I give to you
I give to Jesus

No more being scared
No more being afraid

My life is yours and only yours