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I was sitting in burger king today finishing up a wedding ceremony I was working on. No, someone wasn't getting married at Burger King, I was writing the ceremony. So anyway...

I have this manual I received when I was ordained. It's this little black preachers book. You know the one with the how-to's of various services and such. Well inside this book I discovered two notes.

I'm not real sure if I was taking notes from something I was listening to, or jotting things down for a message I was preparing. At anyrate here's what they had written on them.

• What do you have to do to be chosen? Show up!
• 1 Cor 15:33-34 Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character." Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
• What type of company do you keep?
• Character is doing what is right, because its right and doing it right
• "I can almost land this airplane" is like saying "They are kinda saved" Thats called crashing
• Prov 13:20 He that walks with wise men... but he who walks with fools...
• 2 Cor 6:14 Unequally yoked
• Exchange of strenghts for weakness - Covenant of friendship
• See who people are in a comfortable atmosphere -- around their friends
• Sin is pleasurable for a season
  

Ok as I read those again and type them out... I can almost remember... it would have been a little over a year ago, I was listening to a sermon and at the same time beginning to form the one I was working on about Dating relationships.

So there you go, just a glimpse at how a message at times begins to form...

Sunday Night Sex was this past Sunday.

Imagine this, you walk into church and you hear 50 Cent singing about a candy shop... What types of things run through your mind? Well, I had a couple people rush up to me and ask... "Ummm is this THAT song?" I was like, well yes, it is. "Ummm ok, I was about to say we should probably turn it off" Then someone else was like "Ohhh I thought someone just stuck a CD from their car in or something." Needless to say, it generated a lot of conversation during the 30 minutes or so we hang out in the lobby.

You see I made a CD with several songs whose main theme was sex. I added some hip hop songs, folk music, 80's music... Different styles different times... but all about sex. It worked great. The whole idea was to get people talking about the songs and listening to what they are selling. Of course when I asked who was uncomfortable listening to those songs in church, almost everyone raised their hands... But you know, most people knew the artist, the song title and the lyrics... So if it makes you uncomfortable in church, what's the difference in your car?

This week was about the lies we are told about sex. The band did a great job as usual (sorry no mp3 of the band this time) but it was one of those services for me where I felt like I left so much out. Or like I left too many things hanging, pointing out an untruth and not providing a truth. I know I know, its pretty common after a service to begin questioning the things you said, but this time... I was hit pretty hard in my own mind. Even though I did have several people wanting to talk after the service, some with questions, some just to say it was great and a couple to say "I can't wait till next week." but still... I was still left feeling like the message was not complete. But that's ok, I don't always wrap things up in a nice tidy package anyway.

All in all, I think the service went very well. People are still talking about it and that to me... is a good thing.

I added a link to the message on the Second Sunday MP3 page or you can download the MP3 directly here.