I Love the 80's: Risky Business - Feb 16th/17th

Granger Community Church creates and exists in a high risk/high reward environment. I love that about our church; especially because our focus audience probably has "risk taker" on their resume. This aspect of our culture helps us make decisions and move quickly to execute them. As a result, we are able to accomplish a lot of great ministry with few staff in minimal amounts of time. We are enabled to innovate.

Successfully functioning in a risk-taking environment requires the following from you and your people:

• Being unafraid to fail.
• Being able to think on your feet.
• Being able to synthesize and improvise.
• Tremendous commitment to the mission, vision, and values.
• Outrageous Faith.

This Saturday our volunteer guitarist, Dave showed his tremendous commitment and outrageous Faith. This Saturday Dave was in the hospital. We got a call Saturday afternoon that he wasn't going to make it for the service, that he was in a lot of pain. Of course we were concerned for Dave's health. We were also concerned about the weekend. Dave is an amazing player. We had specially selected the song "Beat It" for Dave because it contained an Eddie Van Halen guitar solo. We knew Dave would be able to nail it. Suddenly, no Dave and no practiced backup guitarist. Oh, no.

Well, if you watch the service you will see Dave playing his amazing solos. Dave has a strong commitment to Lord and his ministry. He came in to play all five services this weekend. I heard he slept on our couch downstairs between services because he had to take a lot of pain medication. I am sure it's one of the few times I will be glad to hear the statement,"Your guitar player is on drugs."

I guess what I like most about risk-taking is that it forces us to rely more on God and each other more than even our best laid plans. It's a beautiful thing.