Well, No Pride Left Tonight

[Sherri]

We broke in the new sanctuary tonight for sure - no distinguished, high class, stiltedness in our new place, thank the Lord!! We had an Encounter Service tonight, which we have the first Wed. of each month. Tonight, there was such freedom in the service - lots of people dancing, etc.

But we started singing that song, "I Am Free to Run; I Am Free to Dance", which we've done a gazillion times before. Tonight, when we started it, about 50 people spontaneously took off running around the building. They've NEVER done that before - maybe one person once in a great while, but never a bunch like that. The very cool thing was that it wasn't a bunch of people who were raised like us - they were mostly Church of Christ, Methodist, etc. They had never even seen anyone run in church before!!! It was just a freedom that they didn't know what to do with, so they took off. It was really awesome!

Sometimes when you move in a new auditorium, it takes a while for the people to feel comfortable worshipping - we've been through that before. I'm glad we broke through that thing tonight!! Praise God!