I usually post these videos on the Friday before a series launch, but this one couldn't wait. Here's the promo for our new series, The Office:



We have several ways we are getting the conversation going when it comes to this series:

1. A special interactive website: http://www.myworksecrets.com/
2. Teaser billboards throughout our community that invite people into the website, conversation, and church itself. You can see the boards near the I-77/I-85 interchange, on Hwy. 21 in Fort Mill, and on Hwy. 160 near the Baxter community, also in Fort Mill.
3. A special Facebook page just for the series.
4. But most of all . . . you. All the media presence we can muster will never replace the value of word of mouth. So if Good Shepherd is your home and you have friends or family who struggle with work, you now have six days worth of inviting time.

Disruption has been a departure for us at Good Shepherd.

Normally, the series we do after Easter have been . . . gentle. Horizontal. Focused on relationships, based on human interest.

The services in Disruption have been more "in your face." Inviting people to consider seriously the direction of their lives in comparison to the direction Jesus wants to take them.

I'm glad we did it this way.

So we wind up the series this Sunday with a look at what Jesus does when you just want to be left alone. How he disrupts us when our spirituality centers on our comfort & convenience.

I like how we're concluding. It's probably something that's long overdue.

Sunday.

8:30. 10. 11:30.

1. You get to see our hip, new Corner Campus.

2. Snacks galore.

3. Each Sunday I see pockets of people socializing at Good Shepherd. When I ask them how they met, the answer usually comes, "oh, we were in Pathfinders together."

4. It's a healthy way of doing group ministry in church.

5. One night. Many surprises. New friends. Old friends. Discover personal trivia about some of your pastors.

You can sign up for Pathfinders here.

See you at 7 p.m. tonight.

One of the Rolling Stones' most clever songs is Respectable from their 1978 gem Some Girls.

In it, Mick Jagger sings of the irony that the band is now "respectable" in high society.

Yet he quickly points 0ut that they are not so respectable that Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau actually wants them to party with his glamorous wife Margaret.

Well, Mick doesn't sing those exact words, but that's what they mean. If you remember 1978, you know what I'm saying.

Anyway, I thought of that song a lot as I prepared the message that's coming this Sunday.

(And no, the band's not playing it in church.)

But the notions of respectability and the pats on the back we expect from God go the the very heart of Jesus' disruption of a young man's life that Mark describes in chapter 10 of his gospel. You can read the story here.

To see how all these disparate elements come together, venture out to Disruption this Sunday.

8:30. 10. 11:30.