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Inside Tonight’s Christmas Eve Experience

December 25, 2007 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Just got into our hotel room down in VA…got an early morning flight to FL, but wanted to get this out quick.
  • Before I forget…MERRY CHRISTMAS everybody!  Enjoy your day, be safe, and don’t forget to worship Jesus in the midst of it.
  • I really enjoyed the 5PM service.  I thought Earl put together a nice service and there was a real nice crowd.
  • I thought for sure that most people would choose to go to the 5PM service, so I actually told Lisa to put some chairs away beforehand and make the rows smaller than normal.
  • Oops I was wrong, people kept flooding in one after another. 
  • We went for the jugular so to speak right from the start with the Little Drummer Boy video.  I heard mixed reviews afterwards…people either loved it or hated it…didn’t seem to be any middle ground.
  • Hey don’t say I didn’t warn you.
  • It was nice having other staff participate.
  • OK, now for the bad stuff…I thought I did horrible.  I just never got into a groove. 
  • Not making excuses, but it’s hard enough to put together one message in a week much less 2. 
  • God always has the last laugh though…not sure of the exact number but it looked like we had another 5-6 people make professions of faith.
  • I also thought the whole Experience lacked the flow we normally have.  Yes, from a technical standpoint things flowed smoothly but from a spiritual flow of everything reinforcing each other, it felt really fragmented.
  • Ok, so we did have one technical problem….one of the lights decided to do it’s own thing.  I even tried unplugging it when I was over by it, but repeated attempts still left one light going wild.
  • Alright gotta get some sleep we’ve got an early flight.
  • I ma or may not blog on occasion while I’m away, so if the frequency is down, don’t worry I’ll be back soon.
  • Again Merry Christmas…I love you all!

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