What a weekend. In case you hadn't heard, Christ Fellowship celebrated our 90th birthday (if you combine the years we worship as First Baptist Church of Perrine) this week. To celebrate, we had a month worth of services combined into one. At Palmetto Bay we had baptism, Lord's Supper, a Guest Pastor (I'll get there soon), multiple presentations, plaque presentations, nine videos, multimedia worship, and I saw someone carrying in a partridge and someone else with a pear tree! It was great.
The fabulous thing was that it didn't feel chaotic. Maybe that's because I was on vacation during the creation part, but I walked in Saturday looking for something to do (and found I really wasn't needed). When talking about ownership, that's a great place to be! It's great to not be needed.
Tommy Watson, Pastor at First Baptist Church of Perrine for 35 years, was our guest pastor. With everything else going on in the service, Tommy had like 16 minutes to speak. The stories surrounding Tommy are almost legendary... most of them are true too! If you've never heard Tommy speak, that 16 minutes is more like 15 minutes of laughs with one minute of seriousness, yet still with all the laughs you leave being challenged. Hearing Tommy reminded me of church growing up (since I grew up @ Perrine, and heard hundreds of his sermons over the years). I loved it, and I have the utmost respect for Tommy and Mollie, both as Pastor and people.
At Homestead we were blessed with Rev. Tony Isaacs, our Small Groups Pastor. Every time Tony speaks, I get challenged. I wish we would get to hear more from him. This was the first time CFHomestead had a separate message than CFPalm Bay. What was great for me, though, was both Tommy and Tony spoke on my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE scripture... Legion in Decapolis. Tommy's message was creatively entitled "Even a Caveman can do it", pushing the fact that Legion was not trained in evangelism - he lived in a cave - but he was touched by Jesus and did great things. Tony's message, "Maniac Missionary" was about losing control of your life and letting God guide you, like he did Legion to Decapolis. The great thing, and I never saw it, was seeing the effects of Legion after he hit Decapolis (check out Matthew 15:30ish.)
Both sermons will be available on our podcast right about now... or you can download the MP3 messages from the CFFamily.org website in a couple days. On a side note, Christ Fellowship has been podcasting for officially one year now. We got started June 17, 2006. Subscribe now!
I know I've said it before, but it's fun looking forward to each week. Honestly, it's always a surprise to hear what they've thought of next! God, thank you for what you have brought us to, and we look forward to what you have in store for us soon.
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