backsliding...
While we were attending the Global Advance Pastor's Retreat in Branson, MO this week, we sat up near the front, as is my custom. However, for one of the sessions, when we entered the room almost every seat was already taken, and we were forced to sit on the next-to-the-last row. Now, you have to remember that I'm always on the front row at CLC, and even when I go away to meetings elsewhere, I almost always sit near the front. Now I know why!
I was so distracted sitting in the back! Besides my ADD gifting (or probably because of it), I kept noticing other people in the room instead of focusing on the speaker. Weird! Anyway, it made me wonder how all the rest of you do it? I mean, the majority of people attending CLC do sit somewhere other than the front, and many do so week after week. How do you keep from getting distracted by all the stuff going on around you? I'm really curious.....lemme know.
I was so distracted sitting in the back! Besides my ADD gifting (or probably because of it), I kept noticing other people in the room instead of focusing on the speaker. Weird! Anyway, it made me wonder how all the rest of you do it? I mean, the majority of people attending CLC do sit somewhere other than the front, and many do so week after week. How do you keep from getting distracted by all the stuff going on around you? I'm really curious.....lemme know.
posted by Pastor Jerry McQuay at 3:00 PM
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I suppose SOMEONE'S got to sit in the back. How about (latecomers, women with crying children, people who feel they might throw up--LOL). BRO. MCQUAY!! How are you? Been praying for you & the church there! God Bless,
Tom Contino
tommyjoe.wordpress.com
I'm good, Tom - thanks for the prayers. But my question is HOW do people who sit in the back receive from the service w/o distraction?
Up front is kind of "at His feet" for me. I rarely sit toward the back because it's too distracting. However, if I fear that I may be a distraction: if I have my daughter with me or I've got to leave early or have a bad cough...I'll find a place for easy exit. Then I simply focus on the big screen & try to participate by with my amen or oh me. Otherwise, I sit near the front so I can concentrate.
It's near impossible to get everything out of service in the back. If you sit there enough your mind gets trained (if you work at it) to block most distractions out. Oh, and it helps the sermons are on the website (except Shorewood currently).
Well, seems like you're kinda confirming my experience...sure hope that many of you have 'trained' yourself to block out the distractions and receive... otherwise, being in the back is a real bummer.
(BTW, Randy, thanks for pointing out the Shorewood podcast need - we'll get on it)
Exactly, Bro. McQuay, exactly!
Being 5'1 I have to practically strain my neck to see anything from the back. SO maybe it's the height thing and my less than perfect eyesight, but I just feel disconnected even a few rows back from the front, and not part of the service. But I guess everyone just has their own preference.
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