Subscribe to the NetworkHSM Weekend in Review: Volume 24
Weekend Teaching Series: 1-off Weekends (1 of 2)
Message Title: Show Who You Are
Sermon in a Sentence: The friends that carried the paralyzed man saw someone in need, took action and let Jesus do the rest – we should do the same by living a life of friendship evangelism.
Key Verse: Mark 2:1-5 The story of Jesus healing the paralytic.
Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 4 out of 10, last minute changes to our teaching schedule made things interesting, but the actual program was pretty straightforward.
Service Length: 60 minutes
Understandable Message: Jake thought to use this story as a backdrop for friendship evangelism challenge. He and I team-taught together in a conversational style using a couple of stools on stage. The story of Jesus healing the paralytic is a powerful story of friends bringing people to Jesus – we likened it to not letting selfish eyes and obstacles get it in the way of us bringing friends to Christ. The message and challenge was clear, but as always it is interesting to teach “bring your friends” to an audience that could be made up of people that are bringing their friends.
Volunteer/Student Involvement: Students ran the band, lights, sound, cameras and assisted with media this weekend. Student and volunteers handed out 3-packs of flyers promoting PumpkinFest as well. Grabbed a few students to do an opening bit on stage, and used one for an up-front game as well. Overall there was good volunteer involvement.
Element of Fun/Positive Environment: Jake and I played the mayo video just for fun to reintroduce him to the weekend crowd since he’s been serving at the San Clemente regional campus for the past couple of years, recently back as the outreach pastor for Student Ministries. We also played a quick little trivia game on each other (he quizzed me on Star Wars, I quizzed him on baseball) that illustrated how what we care about shows up in our relationship and Christ should naturally be a part of a friendship, too.
Music Playlist: Beautiful Lord, How He Loves Us, Blessed Be Your Name
Favorite Moment: Having Jake back on the main campus regional team is a huge blessing. His heart for the community students and the unchurched is clear. It was so cool to see him take the stage for the first time (again).
