Things I Wish We Didn't Do

If you had a chance to attend a Celebration Service at Community Christian Church this past weekend, you know we were wrapping up our series, Things I Wish Jesus Never Said with a Big Idea titled, "Go Sell Your Possessions."  Our Lead Pastor, Dave Ferguson was filmed in San Pablo City, Phillipines where we recently started a new church called Front Line Minitries. 

Front Line Ministries www.frontlinemissions.com was founded by Jeff Pessina, who after accepting Christ, sold all his possessions and began helping people find their way back to God in the Phillipines. 

Two things about this Big Idea that Dave Ferguson will never tell you:

1. Do you remember the Communion part of the message?  We gave you the impression that Dave was in the Phillipines, didn't we?  Sorry, he wasnt.  We shot that part of the message back home in Naperville after we figured out how we wanted to wrap up the message.  But Dave did a good job of wearing the same clothes and our media team did a good job blurring the background so that you couldn't tell the difference.  Sorry to have to tell you the truth, but Dave wasn't going to.

2. Another thing that Dave will never tell you is about the fake dollar bill we gave everyone.  Remember it?  It's how he wrapped up the message in the communion moment. We asked everyone to write down the "one thing" that stands between you and following Jesus completely.   For some it was money, for others, it was something entirely different. 

Well, that wasn't the first fake dollar bill we printed.  The first draft of the fake dollar bill was pretty much the real deal...a perfect photocopy of our U.S. currency ...until our Finance Director, David Girdwood, said, "Uhhh guys, I'm pretty sure its illegal to photocopy currency."  To which the rest of us said, "Oh...didn't know that.  I guess we better start over."  But don't worry, we only printed a few dozen before we stopped the process and I'm pretty sure we shredded them too.

Comments

[Sherry Gossman]

We didn't actually copy the dollar bill -I just googled it and it came up. Just trying to help out with the budget crunch John.

[Eric Bramlett]

Also- we had always planned to do the communion moment from the Phillipines. But Dave (and Tom) forgot to film it, and in the interest of fiscal responsibility, we elected not to fly back to get the footage.

[lorinda]

Good thing we have David or we would have had to use budget money to bail you guys out of jail.

[Bill Carroll]

This is my new favorite blog! Remember that one time.. when Sherry Gossman got arrested for counterfeiting... that was AWESOME!

[Cliff Parrish]

It was pretty obvious that the communion moment was not in the Philippines as it was way too quite. Without rosters roosting and Filipino's singing karaoke in the background, I immediately lost the authentic communion moment.