Saw this on a friend’s Facebook wall and loved it!

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, ‘What a lovely sermon!’ but ‘I will do something.’
-Billy Graham

From Fox News:

KOKOMO, Ind. — A pastor brought out a dirt bike during a church service to demonstrate the concept of unity. Now he’s demonstrating the concept of healing.

Jeff Harlow, the senior pastor at Crossroads Community Church, broke his wrist when he lost control of the motorcycle at the start of Sunday’s second service, driving off a 5-foot platform and into the vacant first row of seats. He underwent surgery on the wrist Monday.

“Jeff has already laughed a lot, so he’s OK. I think his pride was bruised,” said his wife, Becky.

Becky Harlow said her husband had recently attended a motorcycle race in Buchanan, Mich.

“He had this idea that he would bring this bike out onstage and show people how the rider would become one with the bike,” she told the Kokomo Tribune. “He was going to just sit on it and drive it out. He was just walking the dirt bike out onstage and somehow it got away from him. It was not intended.”

No one else was hurt.

Jeff Harlow had performed the demonstration at earlier services Saturday night and Sunday morning without incident.

Yeah, my favorite part is how he was trying to “show people how the rider would become one with the bike.” Oops. Maybe there’s a better lesson here about not using power you’re not used to.

The family and I are down at Garden City, SC, for a week-end with the students from 365, the youth ministry of First Assembly in Concord, NC. Last night was the first service and it was off the charts good. God showed up just like He always does and the worship was intense. I got to hear the student worship band do some rocking worship songs like God of This City by Passion and Hear us From Heaven by Jared Anderson.

I spoke on getting new wineskins and got to deliver one of my favorite messages, Beautiful Brokenness. I love doing the Giant Hershey bar illustration at the end of that message and the teens ate it up – literally. Lots of response to the Lord at the altar followed by some courageous students stepping up for deliverance from porn and eating disorders.

Tonight we deal with getting the new wine poured into our new wineskins. I’m expecting God to blow us completely away by what He does. More on that tomorrow (or really late tonight if I’m still up after the service winds down).

Thanks to all of you who are lifting our ministry up to the Lord this week-end. God has heard you and is answering!