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Last night we didn’t know where we wanted to go.

So this morning I googled churches in Brevard. That was good for a chuckle. Then Shannon said “let’s visit that church on Grissom.” “Discovery?” “yeah.”

Their service starts at 11, so we went and had breakfast. Then we killed time.

Then the clock struck 10:55 so we went in.

The greeting is intense. We’ve been greeted by….everybody.

Worship is..hm. They open with “your grace is enough.” solid B for effort. Tempo is a little fast, singing is atrocious, and I would spend a solid prayer meeting asking God to convict the bass player into wearing pants instead of shorts.

Break for announcements…potluck, youth camp, and a report from a lady that was in Haiti.

This is very much a “homegrown” service, no program to speak of. And it seems to be OK to stand up and interrupt with your own thoughts. The mic gets passed around a ton.

Greeting is a freaking past-time here.

“I will worship (echo)” yeah.
They have one young man on stage on guitar, I feel like going to him after the service and telling him “hang in there. Either you’ll get old too, or more young people will come. Either way..”

And we sang a typo. “Jesus dies my soul to save” no no. DieD. With a D.

I haven’t sang “shout to the Lord” in years.

Now here is a problem. I can’t figure out who the pastor is. This is weird.

We’re about to do communion…ok, maybe Steve Buscemmi backup singer is the pastor.

Bonus!!! Acapella meditation by backup Steve Buscemmi. I’m having a very hard time understanding what he’s saying/singing. His mic is too far, and he’s a mumbler. Also, before the offering he told a story about a really good roast beef sandwich he had and the horseradish sauce.

Oh SNAP!!! The DRUMMER is the pastor!!! I didn’t see that coming.

This guy reminds me of Justin Gamble. But in a good way.

“we” are in “40 days of love.” so today is “love is not easily angered.” He is totally reading his sermon. There is a lot of “how many people _________” and raising hands. Like somebody is counting or something.

If pastor Eric circa 2006 was preaching this message, 1. There would be more than a hundred people here listening. And 2. He would have titled it “Anger Management” and movie clips would have been involved.

My thoughts here are that the pastor really has a lot of potential. Like, it would take very little effort to produce grade A preaching here. His message is solid. Basic, but solid. And he’s very clear, direct, engaging, etc. The amount of work to make him like, say, a good ARC pastor would be minimal.

Closing with a few moments of silent prayer. Aaaaaaand a song.

Aaaaaand no…that was not the close. We have individuals who are coming up for prayer and we are praying for them one by one. And the softball team!!!! We are praying for them! I only see 7. Maybe the pastor is on the team. That’d make 8.

They want us to grab bread.

Old man sitting in front of me  gives closing prayer (picked at random) And then a closing song.

As I picked up Ella, the teacher said “uhhh…she found one of the markers. We tried to wash it off the best we could.”

Great. My kid is the “eats markers” kid.