Greetings to all in this new year 2011.
Three things we ask of you this Sunday:
1) If you are coming to the potluck please show up before 5pm with your food to share so we can begin eating on time at 5pm.
2) Understand and bring Jesus with you.
3) Come sometime before or by 6pm if you are not coming to the potluck. We've fallen into a habit of not starting on time. While we have Sundays available to us we really need to fellowship between 5pm and 6pm so we have the full opportunity for worship.
Just before Christmas Darrell and I read a quote by Frank Viola. He said, " Worship doesn't led us to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ leads us to worship." During the holidays Darrell and I discussed this statement with ourselves and others.
Some of you may remember our "dime" story. Well, this morning I woke up with new revelation from the Holy Spirit about these dimes. We found one dime everyday for 17 days straight in strange locations. The 17 dimes represented, (and here is the new revelation), the 17 years we practiced choosing worship songs for the congregation to sing. We would often hear: "Darrell lead us into worship". We, and I'll speak only for Darrell and myself, enjoyed the affirmation and applause that came with a well produced musical presentation leading people to Jesus. For 17 days in a row we found one dime. Then on the 18th day we didn't find one.
But on the 19th day we found two. 
During that time Dave Olsen was teaching us to ask questions and practice listening to the Holy Spirit. "What do you hold in your hands?" We said, "Two dimes. Twenty cents. A-pair-of-dimes....paradigm!"
During that time Dave Olsen was teaching us to ask questions and practice listening to the Holy Spirit. "What do you hold in your hands?" We said, "Two dimes. Twenty cents. A-pair-of-dimes....paradigm!" For seven years now we have practiced in our Worship at the River gatherings what it means for God to lead us into this "paradigm shift" in the way we think and express Jesus leading us to worship. Darrell and I are still trying to let God, in Bob Jones' prophetic word over us, "pulverize our brains" in how we come together to corporately worship. Please come and bring that which leads you to worship Jesus through your testimony, psalm, song, tongue, interpretation and praise and thanksgiving of God's love.
Don't forget the dimes.....and be on time,
Darrell and Carlene
