Yahoo! It's finally Easter weekend! We've been uber-busy trying to get everything ready at The Crossing for people to have their minds blown with the awesomeness of God this weekend. Let me just explain something for those of you who've never been to a church that would give away cars (yes, 3 of them) just to get people in the door. Why do we care? Why do we care about getting so many people to show up to a church service? People = LIVES! Do you know anyone who needs a change in their life? They party too much, are dealing with an addiction that is tearing them apart, are going through a horrible divorce, are struggling with losing a loved one? Maybe that person is you. See, I don't know what you think about God. I believe He's real and doesn't care about your past junk. He knows how screwed up & broken we all are & He just wants us to do life with Him.

Over the past 5 years, I have watched God change HUNDREDS of lives at The Crossing. Literally, HUNDREDS! Including my life. I know people don't always understand the way we go about reaching people. I know lots of people have an idea in their head about how church is "supposed to be". Like, we're not "supposed to" play loud rock music, like Aerosmith. Or, we're not "supposed to" wear ripped jeans to church. Or we're not "supposed to" have FUN at church. We're "supposed to" be solemn and serious and bored to death at church, right? I think it's funny how for over 2,000 years people have had this idea of how church is "supposed to be". The Apostle Paul was constantly trying to explain to people that God doesn't care about rules or rituals. People haven't changed. Not in 2,000 years! GOD STILL DOESN'T CARE ABOUT RULES & RITUALS. Isn't that cool?

I read this passage this morning:
Does it sound like we're patting ourselves on the back, insisting on our credentials, asserting our authority? Well, we're not. Neither do we need letters of endorsement, either to you or from you. You yourselves are all the endorsement we need. Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it -- not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives -- and we publish it. (I think of all the people who've been reached in an unconventional, non-churchy way...)

We couldn't be more sure of ourselves in this -- that you, written by Christ himself for God, are our letter of recommendation. We wouldn't think of writing this kind of letter about ourselves. Only God can write such a letter. His letter authorizes us to help carry out this new plan of action. The plan wasn't written out with ink on paper, with pages and pages of legal footnotes, killing your spirit. It's written with Spirit on spirit, his life on our lives!
-2 Cor 3:1-6 (The Message)

So I will stay on The Crossing's mission to move seekers one step closer to a real relationship with Jesus and to thrill believers with spiritual truths of an awe-inspiring God. Know why? 'Cause God is at work at The Crossing, people. God is changing lives there. And it might not be the way it's "supposed to be". And that's OK.