Woooooow

I was up late last night. 4:30 by my time. I then woke up at 9:30 to go to church. I got stood up for that... and was back asleep by 11:00 or so. I then slept until 2:00 or so.

It's been a crazy day. I spent most of it at, or getting to/from, New Smyrna Beach for Current, a monthly night of praise at a church out there. Two bands played tonight. One was a Hispanic band with an awesome lead guy. The other band is the band that two of my roommates play in.

I've unofficially become their sound guy since I have formal experience in such matters, and their tech, while nice and wanting to learn, has little experience in it. Tonight was an outdoor gig (it was crazy cold), and it was my first outdoor gig. I still don't enjoy having thirty people trying to tell me how to do my job, but I'm pretty used to it (not sure why everyone thinks they're qualified to tell the sound guy how to do his job when they don't tell the guitarists how to do theirs... it's rather degrading). I digress, though. Mixing outside was awesome. The night sounded fantastic overall, and it felt good to be doing something significant.

Which leads me to another consideration. I'm admittedly not a strong supporter of "go to church every Sunday" so long as doing that is done simply for its own sake. The arguments made for going to church every week, in my experience, aren't actually supported by going to church every week in practice. Unfortunate, that.

Still, as I feel like I'm meant to be a part of formal ministry, I know now more than ever that I should get legitimately involved with a local church instead of visiting churches from time to time and helping out with special events when they come up. So, this week, my project is to find a church to legitimately plug in with. I don't know yet what I want to plug in with (music, tech, discipleship, leadership, etc.).

It'll be interesting to see what happens. God only knows. I'm kinda hoping to plug in with a music ministry because I love music so much, but the future still lies ahead of me.