It cost $50 to get in the gate, $12 to park, $6.50 per hotdog, $5.50 per coke. Yet all this for a Rangers Game. But the question is, why to we spend so much and watch a 3 hour baseball game yet have problems with one hour at church? I think it has to do with one word - Excitement. But wait a minute. What should be more exciting, interacting with our Creator or watching some way over priced guys run around some bags? Don’t get me wrong, the game last night was really exciting.

This got me thinking about the emotional agenda of church. It seems like it is the same agenda every single week almost at every single church. The first song is something exciting. Then we have a welcome, followed by a sequence of songs that goes from exciting to reflective. This if followed by a sermon that is suppose to convict, then followed by an invitation where the entire service is critiqued. More people come to the front, the more productive we have been.

Those that break these molds are usually criticized. Pray for me as I begin to reexamin this emotional agenda within our own church.