Looking at my latest calendar, X marks the spot on so many dates. Â I have the Yankees coming into town in less than two weeks, a buddies wedding the end of April, a two-night camping trip with my sons in early May, my 25th prep-school reunion in June, a family vacation July, and another in August. Â Then Football season!!!
Now unlike the old pirate who used to believe each one of these events had to be bigger and better then the rest…I still get caught up in the idea of creating these crazy events and make them bigger than life. Â Parties are not meant to be small. Â And I often get carried away by inviting an over-capacity crowd.
When it comes to my social calendar, I don’t ever want to leave anyone out, or left behind.  The more the merrier.  So I try to include everyone.
Each May, my neighborhood’s tradition is to celebrate a big Cinco De Mayo Party at my house.  But keeping it to just 80 neighbors is not good enough for me.  And I have now grown this party into a county-wide celebration that has over 250 invitees and a live band.  And due to that, I can’t hold it on May 5th anymore because its too big.  Its now held some time late in the summer, on a quiet weekend, and called whatever date in Spanish, with the tagline: Mancuso-palooza.
I bring this up because last week, we talked about inviting our friends into the “Resurrection life” and we spoke about it as if it were a party. Â Now being a church guy, I like and understand the picture being painted, but to call it a “PARTY”, isn’t that a bit much? Â I have never been sitting in church and blanked out and thought “Hey wait a second, am I sitting in a church or am I at Cinco de Mayo?
Now I am not saying that church should look like that but should there be such a stark contrast between the two? Â One is something to which you literally count down the days until, and the other something people (People other than those on this list of course) look for excuses to avoid.
What if the whole Christianity thing was supposed to be something we couldn’t wait to attend?  What if the invitation to find out more about God was supposed to look as inviting as the Evite to Mancuso-palooza?
If there was ever a week to invite a friend into Fuel, this is the week. Â DR is going to bring it home. Â Step out with us and encourage your friends to join us.
Come on out this week as we enter our second week of our series Easter Prep: Raise The Roof.
Invest, Invite, Inspire…and Raise the Roof!
Pat Mancuso
patmancuso@mac.com
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