Weekend Update

We have had a good weekend at CrossRoads even though I have been battling a cold since Saturday morning. Sunday was a good day of worship, spirit and attendance at CrossRoads. Here are some of the highlights of the day:

* We voted to call Mrs. Shae Walton as our Children's Pastor and our church is very blessed to have this great lady in our church and now joining our ministerial staff.
* We had a New Member Orientation and will be welcoming eight new members into our fellowship plus others attending the orientation that have joined in the past but are just know going through orientation. I am glad our church requires the class before becoming a full member and I do believe its best to attend this class before expressing one's "public" decision to join the church.
* Sunday was an emotional day for Jeff Whaley and his family. Jeff has been trying for several years to get full custody of his son and after many disappointments and delays, it finally happened December 26. This past Sunday Jeff's son, Preston, joined our fellowship. It was an emotional time for us all.
* I began a series of messages, that for a lack of a better term I am calling it "Our Core Values." Sunday I preached from John 3:13-17 "Jesus is the Only Choice." My main point was that Jesus cannot be your choice until He is your only choice. When you realize who you are, how sinful you are and deserving of hell, and then realize who Jesus is and what He has already done - then you are left with no option except to believe in Jesus. As long as you think you have other options, I don't care if you say a prayer, walk an aisle, or join a church - you are not saved. Jesus can not be your choice until He is your only choice. You don't "try" Jesus - when you come to Him He is your only option.
* Sunday night we had our monthly "Church Family Night" and hosted Dr. Frank Whitaker and Barton's First Baptist Church. Bro. Frank, the Pastor, has been a friend for over twenty-five years and he brought a great message on Worship from Deuteronomy 6. Barton's very fine music ministry under the direction of Archie Hubbard led the music and it was a great night of worship. I am very grateful for Barton and Bro. Frank coming to Elgin and having a joint service with us. (In my opinion, these types of services need to happen more).
* Then today several of us guys have been at the church re-arranging our auditorium. We had a member of our church to donate another screen, video monitor and another projector, so we are arranging our auditorium differently in order for our people to see the platform and the two screens. It is going to have a good feel to the auditorium when finished.

LSU is winning 31-10 so it looks like my final bowl picks is going to be 25-6. I picked LSU to win 25-22 so since they can't take points away from LSU I've come under their final point total. But it looks like the SEC will once again prove to the entire nation how good football is here in the South.