self-centeredness

ever heard of it? if not, just ask. i'm an expert at it.

yesterday our senior minister, bruce, spoke on self-centeredness. it was lesson 6 of 6 on "Maintaining Your Spiritual Strength in a Non-Spiritual World." bruce is great! he is like a kid up there. he really loves to share the bible with the congregation.

however, during the service, i noticed a visitor in the audience with his family. it was a guy i played softball with in texas! he so happens to be the senior minister at lakeside coc in mansfield, tx! the story of how they picked port city is awesome! i won't get into it in this post, but if you want i will tell you, all you have to do is ask.

i noticed him during the communion service. i was working the media shout computer, and i told dale (he was working the sound board) that i would be right back. so between the bread and wine i went up to my wife and told her that todd and debbie were visiting from lakeside. she said, "yeah right. where are they?" so i showed her, and i said i'll be right back. i walked up to them and i put my arm around todd and said, "what are you doing here?" you shoulda saw the look on his face when i said that!

after he got over the shock of seeing me, he asked how i was, and said fine. you know, the coc answer to that question. i asked why he was there, and he said he was there on vacation. i said, "cool." he said he was on his way to panama city. i said i would talk later after service.

so after service i tell dale if he could handle taking care of wrapping up the booth so i could go visit my friends. he's like ok.

we chatted and found out that they were supposed to have stayed in p'cola the night before, but marriot could not room them there, and that mobile was the closest they could get. that was good for me. so we went to lunch together and unfortunately i found out that they like just about everything, but seafood. argh! so we went and had some pork bar-b-que at richee's. it was great (cl, i got it confused with smokey bones).

we got them off and after having some lunch. we had some jumbo pulled pig sammiches and some fries. i had a dr pepper, and they had sweet tea. but, the sweet tea was too sweet for them, and they had to go to unsweet. d1 was like, "how can you drink it stuff?!"

all this to say how my morning was really good, and the self-centered sermon went right out the window when i found out that my friends were there. i wanted to be with them and hear about "home" and "family" in texas.

this post is going rather hob-wobblely. a verse that sticks in my mind from the sermon is the one "in their blind conceit, they cannot see how wicked they really are.." psalm 36:2.

anyway, have you ever had a day like that? also, did you notice how many times i used the pronoun "i"?