Sunday service

Today's youth service was awesome. It's not just today, I love going to church. Before I say further, let me first admit what I don't like about Sundays.
1. It's typically a long day from 11.30 am to 5.30pm. For those who only go for 2-hr services, yes, you heard me correctly. We have activities that span the late morning and the entire afternoon.
2. I can't help but sleep during sermons sometime. Sometimes the sermons have no real focus or impact.

That said, I love being in God's house. I love being with His people.

Today was especially good because Bethel's worship pastor led worship today, it felt several notches better than usual. This is what happens when you put a very talented and anointed man in the right job. That's not to say that the usual youth worship leaders aren't good, they are. But Pastor Aaron brings with him an anointing and gifting that is so specialised in the area of leading worship, I can only say that God is truly with this man!

But strangely I only felt that way today, on other days when I go for adults services, and Aaron is leading, it's not so strong. This is my hypothesis, which I told Jan. The adult crowd is a lot bigger, but not enough to make a full auditorium. So, we have a huge auditorium with people sparsely disperse all around. THIS is a setting for tough crowd. Plus, the older adults are less flexible with the song choices. In youth, we sing songs that are contemporary to us, that makes sense when we kinda sing-shout the praises of God. Plus we youth all gather to the front of the auditorium to worship, so that makes us a squeezy bunch of worshippers. And you can awesomely feel the heat of praising God spreading.

This is not about comparing different styles of worship, even though that's exactly what I have done. It's about coming to worship God with no reservations. Let me repeat that, no reservations. And I think I only started to really learn that today.

As for sermon, Pastor Daniel shared something powerful. My zone really liked his style of preaching because it was short, sharp and sweet. It made sense, we felt the conviction and it was clear. It was on discipleship. I haven't hear a good sermon on prayer for a long time. The last memorable sermon on prayer was by Pastor Rachel, when I was like sec 2. I need someone to inspire me to pray!

Anyway, I'm really stressed now. I'm thinking of all my projects and going, OH MY OH MY OH MY OH MY etc.