Had a great Sanctuary (church for the rest of us - targeted at 6 - 12th grade) last night teaching about Worship. J did an amazing job coordinating the whole experience - starting with some phoneomenal teaching and then some well put together "experiental" time to go off and chew on some of what we'd just talked about. The crux of the message was about worship not being a time, but a lifestyle. J teaches from the heart and with such a great vulternability about him, the kids really connected with what he was saying. I've got a pretty good idea most of the time where he's headed with his talks - but when he was playing clip from dashboard confessional confessional unplugged doing The Best Deceptions. In this clip, there's a group of 50 or so 20-something's sitting around Chris Carrabba (the only guy in the band) singing along to an acoustic version of the song - singing out of key, singing passionately. The kids came to the conclusion that the passion in their singing was because the song probably meant something to them - maybe they'd lived through a breakup and they had a connection to the song. J then took us through a couple of songs and the meanings behind them, and then we sang - like the kids in the video - passionately, fervently. It made for great worship that really struck me. Sanctuary just keeps getting better each time - we're drawing new kids in, and getting the old ones back. J really seems to be getting into his groove on this, and it shows.