What a powerful service today at Life Church WM as we continued our "I Could Use a Miracle" series with part 2. Today we talked about the paralytic who was let down through a hole in the roof by 4 of his friends. Here are a couple of points from the message:

1. Sometimes the church crowd can get in the way of people coming to Jesus. Ouch! (Vs. 4 - They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd)

2. Faith a not a noun. Faith is a verb. (vs.5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”)

3. Who fixed the roof? We closed the message today asking a question that hardly ever gets asked when we think about this miracle. Who stayed behind to fix the roof? 

It takes special people to have the love, the dream, the commitment and the cooperation to knock holes in the roof. But we also need people with selfless love and quiet determination who will fix the roof as well.

To drive this final point home, I stripped off my nice Sunday shirt to reveal one of our Serve Team t-shirts hiding underneath. We issued a challenge for people to join our Serve Team and commit to helping us fix some roofs in the community. Today was fun!