The time is NOW!!!!

Well, tonight's the night! It's gonna be WILD and WONDERFUL!! I love what Rick Warren says on Day 40 of our 40 Days of Community book:

*Worship is a festival, not a funeral!

*It's ironic that in our culture it is acceptable to get excited about anything except God. You can go to a sports event and scream your lungs out, jump up and down, cry, hug, and raise your hands in the air--and people will smile approvingly and call you a FAN. But if you show any joy, heartfelt emotion, or enthusiasm in worship, you're called a FANATIC.

*2 Sam. 6:5--"David and the whole house of Israel were CELEBRATING WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT before the Lord, with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals." THAT MUST HAVE BEEN FUN AND NOISY.

*The Bible is full of celebrations--feasts and festivals and holidays.

*Rev. 5:11-13 tells us that heaven is going to be a giant celebration! Let's start practicing our celebration skills now, so our hearts will be ready for heaven!

I can't wait to celebrate with all my might tonight!