Sunday review

There are really no words to describe yesterday at Foothills Community Church. Everything just clicked. Here are a few highlights:

* Daylight Savings Time definitely got the best of our 9:30am attendance, but the 11:15am service was right on track. Actually our kids numbers were huge yesterday. Apparently it was the adults that slept in (not really sure how the kids got to church?) :-)

* I spoke about how easy it is to move from grace to legalism if we're not careful. In the South there are a lot of very "religious" people that live by a set of rules, rather than in the freedom that the Gospel affords us.

* Legalism says, "God will love me IF I'm good". The Gospel says, "God loves me, therefore I desire to obey" There is a huge difference between these two views.

* I think a lot of people were set free from legalism yesterday.

* Our new T-shirts went on sale in The Stoop. At the end of the 1st service we had already sold out of most of them!

* Last night we had our first ever Live recording at Foothills, and it was AMAZING!

* David Odom and his crew absolutely blew the roof off of the place. I am not kidding, Foothills has the best worship ministry anywhere!

* Our tech crew is unbelievable as well. The sound and lighting and everything that goes into a recording---- wow, these folks burned the midnight oil.

* The place was packed out. It was also cool to have a bunch of people from our Toccoa campus make the journey over to SC.

* People are asking when the CD will be available? the answer is, as soon as possible. Most likely it will take approx. 2 months, but you can Pre-order a copy in the Stoop.

* The highlight of the night for me was the baptisms we did in the middle of the service--- 37 people took the plunge. Yea God!

* What's really amazing was the spectrum of the ages that we baptized.

* We baptized a lot of children and youth. That is incredible. Our kid's ministry (Kidzone) is the best anywhere! I want to brag on my wife, Liz, who is the Director of our children's ministry, and our other staff who serve with our kids. Week after week, they prepare age-appropriate lessons for children and mix it with a lot of fun activities, and as a result, kid's lives are changing!

* This Sunday we will begin Chapter 3 in the book of Colossians