Just got back from David Crowder’s worship leader conference in Waco, Texas this past weekend, and it was great to worship alongside 2,000 other church leaders and to learn from so many different people. Among the speakers were Louie Giglio, Francis Chan, Rob Bell.

Several independent workshops were led by many different worship leaders across the country representing different cultures and styles. Not only was this a time of learning and expanding my knowledge, but also a time for me to worship my Savior. It was quite the experience being in a room with 2,000 beautiful voices reverberating across the room, giving an amazing sense of what Heaven must be like.

The constant message that keeps “re-running” in my head was spoken from Francis Chan, the author of Crazy Love. “I want to live a life that would make sense in the Bible, if someone read about my life”-Chan. What he meant by this is that if someone read about his life in the Bible, Chan wants it to make sense with the other people in it. For example, some look at Paul’s life as radical, but what if that was the “norm” and we are living the “un-normal” life?

Francis Chan wants all of our lives to make “Biblical sense” by identifying the faith and trust that we see in the Bible, and choosing that as how we will live. In a few weeks, Chan and his family will be leaving their comfortable life in Southern California, for a new home, wherever God leads them (it could be Asia, Africa…) We must be confident to know that God is all we need and to recognize that we must die to our own selfish desires.

Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it."

Mark 8:34-35 (NIV)

I’m excited to have begun my journey at Faith and I can't wait to get to know each and every one of you. Every day my family at Faith grows and strengthens. Have a great week and if you ever need a friend to visit Starbucks with, I am willing to make that difficult sacrifice.