Today, will be a day that I won’t forget for awhile. Except for one moment, it was a fairly normal day. I passed on teaching Sunday School this morning. Pam and I are substitutes and I handed off to Pam, who did an excellent job teaching our “young” adults. The past two Sundays by the time I got to preaching, I didn’t have much left. So, I gave that up. We also had our pianist back this morning. That was nice and added to the fullness of the worship team. We stuck with some classics this morning; “Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus,” “Spirit of the Living God,” Gaither’s “Jesus Is Lord of All,” “Jesus, Lord to Me,” and “Give Thanks.” Before the sermon we read the scripture responsively and sang, “Give of Your Best to the Master.”

The message today was on generosity and church multiplication. I finished the sermon and we began to sing “I Gave My Life for Thee” but never finished the song. We had a medical emergency in our congregation. That made for an interesting end to the service.

This evening we had our Ministry Leadership Team meeting and then moved into Spiritual Formation. We are studying the book, “There’s No I In Church.” We looked at the corporate spiritual discipline of koinonia. Koinonia is so much more than just fellowship. It is what the church should be and that is a community. Colossians 3:12-14 describes what the church should be: 12 Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. 14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. So often we over personalize this and forget that Paul was writing to churches not individuals. It’s also in this context that discipline should happen. When the church is experiencing true koinonia, real change happens