Joy - Advent | Southeast Christian Church

Find Jesus, community, and purpose. southeastcc.org Advent is a time of waiting; we wait with anticipation as we prepare our hearts for the coming of the Messiah. This season invites us to reflect on the true meaning and importance of Jesus leaving the comfort of heaven to take on the form of man and coming to earth to embrace our chaos. Southeast Christian Church Good morning family, it's week three, just so you know. My wife is the best, I'm going to get her number. Before we get started this morning, I got to tell you something that happened. I was so proud of our audio visual team, which oftentimes they're the team that nobody notices unless something goes wrong. Right? So our first service starts at 8:30. For real. This is not an exaggeration. At 8:00 AM we did not have a sound system. It was broken. Here's the funny part, Tuesday night, our elders met and we made a decision to do some updating on our sound system, a little too late. So, our AV team scrambled and rewired, and as a leader, one of the things that I enjoy doing is problem solving. So, I went back there to help and I stood back there for a minute and I watched all those wires come out and I was like, you know how I would be most helpful is to go ahead and not say anything right now and just stretch out my hands and pray? So, that's all I had to offer. Unbelievable work that they did this morning, Eric and the team back there just crushed it. And nobody swore that I heard. I'm sure there was some internal dialogue going on, but it was, I mean, everybody maintained their cool. It was great. It was great. So, I was really proud of them and turns out we get to have service after all. So, that's exciting. We're in week three and we're going to jump into joy. We've been talking about, first week was hope. And we talked about how hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today. And then we talked about peace and we talked about how peace isn't rooted in our circumstances. And it's not rooted