December 19th, 2007 by Pastor Matt

We just finished one of those services.  Those long… hard services where everything doesn’t quite go how you imagined it.  When I was just now sitting here thinking about our service, I thought… what went wrong?

We had a special service, a Christmas party… and we had lots planned.  We had so much planned that as soon as the clock struck 7… we were off to the races.  It just wasn’t working though.  None of the kids were paying attention, most were talking, and the ones that weren’t were just staring at me like, “why aren’t you getting everyone to calm down?”  We struggled through the service, and we made it through quite well.  We had an excellent craft (thanks to my wonderful Wife) that got everyone’s attention back, and it was pretty smooth sailing from there.

So… where did we go wrong?  We started off so fast that we didn’t even pray!  I can’t even believe that we just finished a children’s church service without even praying once!  I feel like a children’s church teacher or something should come by and slap my hands with a ruler.

Well… lesson learned.  That’s how we all get better right?