My father dropped me off at SBCC in time for the second service. I came during opening worship, so I found a seat in the back.Pastor Gary started a new series called “One Month To Live”, which is based on a book of the same name, co-written by Kerry & Chris Shook. They founded the Fellowship of The Woodlands near Houston, Texas in 1993 and the church has grown to 15,000.
During a staff retreat, they asked “If you knew you had one month to live, how would you live differently?” The results were amazing and they put what was learned in the book. So SBCC will be taking the "30-day challenge"and reading the book as a daily devotional, and Pastor Gary’s messages over the next five weekends will tie it all together.
He spoke about living our lives knowing that our time on earth is short. But only God knows how long each of us will live and when we will die. We need to prepare ourselves to leave at any time because once we do, whether or not we expect it, we will not have a chance to make any changes or do anything differently.
He illustrated this with a near-death experience that Steve T had a few weeks ago. Steve spoke about being in the middle of a multi-car incident where he saw cars flying towards him, but landing on either side of him. Pastor Gary showed some press photos from the accident.
After the service, I made my way to the kitchen, where I found the other members of my lifegroup. Four of us (Liz, Jennifer, Eric, and myself) met and discussed the first part of lesson nineteen. Sheri joined us after her KidzKrew meeting was over, and Stephanie was able to join us later. Only Sam and Wendi were not able to make it.
My father picked me up around 3:30pm.
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