Village Bible Church || Aurora | Indian Creek | Sugar Grove | IL

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Well another long night, but totally worth it. I had the opportunity to go camping with Matt and the Abide guys. We had a few four man tents and had four to five guys in one tent. I was lucky enough to have five. So I slept shoulder to shoulder, on ground that has not been rained on in months. It was rock hard.

We woke up the next morning and Matt grabbed the guitar and Matt and I started singing worship songs. Soon all the guys had joined in and we worshiped and dances non-stop for about 30 minutes.

After we had breakfast, two brothers wanted to be baptized in the lake we had camped by. Matt agreed to it and before I knew what was going on, everyone was gathered around the lake watching these two boys getting baptized. One guy had a guitar and we were all singing and praying as the baptism was taking place. When Matt was done the two boys and Matt came to land and we sang and danced in celebration for a good 25 minutes. As we sang and danced the brothers got on their knees as multiple people prayed out loud for them. It is hard to explain, but they were praying all at once out loud. It was different but very exciting. It gave me a whole new outlook on baptism and worship.

I feel like when I worship back at home, there is an order to every song. You follow that order and don’t change it. I feel like there is no room for the Spirit to work and move. Now I feel completely different. I feel that if one feels lead by the Spirit to sing the song again or feels lead to sing another chorus (for example) they should do that. I have learned that as Americans we are very scared that the church service will go to long. I have learned that we should be more concerned about how God wants to speak to us and less concerned about going over our scheduled time.

In Christ

Tim