Maybe a few BTer’s saw it. . .

You never can tell if being on the news is a blessing or a curse. I hate talking on camera. There’s a near paralyzing fear you’re going to say something that comes off wrong. Then, there’s the old effect that hearing your own voice recorded always has: “do I really sound like that?”. In this case – “do I really look AND sound like that?” To me I looked grim and overweight. Not sure if the grim thing was seen by all – but one friend confirmed the overweight part! So, a fat, basically unhappy Pastor. Glad I could represent us all well! Now I see why national level people have “handlers”.

On the other hand, I love the free publicity for the church. For the handful that may have seen it, it’s getting pretty wild that our vision and hopes for the mall are making local news. The reporter told me the station had been getting many calls. Maybe I’m naïve, but it’s hard to imagine why anyone would call a TV station to report what we’re doing. On the other hand; just before Easter, it’s nice to put ourselves in front of eyes that don’t normally see us. Maybe someone will choose to come this Sunday after seeing the piece.

I told a team of Edgers at the beginning of the year, I believe the Lord is calling us to a new day of being placed “on a stand” as in when Jesus said, “no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bowl or hides it under a bed. He puts it on a stand. . .” We are still kind of “hidden”. No one looking at our building or hearing our name would assume that we do the things we do. It seems we’re suited to a mall rather than a building that looks like a normal church. And, there is no doubt, if we WERE to move into the mall we can know that we will be up on a stand.

The wildest thing of all is; all of this was nothing but unseen prayer over the last decade. Now it is creeping into “seen” reality. Fun stuff.

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