Acting, Singing, Dancing, Rapping

And worship. 

Sunday night was a milestone of sorts. 

My friends at Movement Church got together to celebrate Christmas before everyone splits town to visit family.  The focus of the night, obviously, was celebrating the incarnation of Jesus, his stepping out of glory and into humility to a broken world to save sinners.  Roommate Matt (aka Heavy D) and the worship band were great, my favorite part was Heavy on the electric guitar playing "Silent Night"--truly awesome--and we had a great word presented by the always inspiring Robby Christmas.

Then we shared a meal, and each of five Community Groups was charged with presenting a Christmas song or skit.  This is when the laughter started, as we had a lot of creativity and humor crammed into one room.  There was a "fake" Santa who turned out to be a catburgular, "Bill gone wild" (long story), an updated, hilarious version of the 12 days of Christmas, and a mock Community Group meeting that poked a little fun at our two pastors--some incredible impersonations by the way! 

My favorite song, of course, was the one that featured me rapping.  We came out in borrowed choir robes and did a version of "Oh Holy Night" with Joanna taking most of the vocals (amazing), and about halfway through the singing stopped, Robby and I each grabbed a mic and threw on baseball caps, and he beatboxed while I rapped for what seemed like forever but really amounted to about a minute and a half. I'm talking like, 8 Mile, rap concert kind of rapping, but the co-writer preaches for a living so it was theologically sound.  We even found something to rhyme with "substiutionary atonement."  Rumor is there's a video out there somewhere, hopefully I can get my hands on it and post it at some point. 

Needless to say this was not your typical worship service, but worship we did.  Naturally everyone was hyped about the skits and the competition, but the focus was on Jesus from beginning to end. as it should be and always is at Movement.  I'm so blessed to be a part of such a great community of Christ-followers, and it was neat to see a display of all the talents God has given us join together in a night of fun and fellowship and giving thanks to Him. 

In the spirit of poking fun at pastors, look for the next blogpost to be titled "Church words and our excessive usage."  And, let's be honest, it's not just limited to vocational ministers. 

Hopefully you'll "camp out" there for a while.