Each week we try to revolve our service around one big idea. We want the music, message, and videos to all communicate one unforgettable truth. Last week the big idea was: you can’t not worship. The big idea this weekend is: if you aren’t willing to look foolish you’re foolish. I’m going to preach from II Samuel 6 where David dances before the Lord. His wife, Michal, criticizes David for making a fool out of himself. David says, “So I am willing to act like a fool in order to show my joy in the Lord. Yes, I am willing to look even more foolish than this.”

Here’s one of my definitions of faith. Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

Noah looked foolish building an ark. David looked foolish attacking Goliath with a slingshot. Peter looked foolish stepping out of the boat in the middle of the lake in the middle of the night. Jesus looked foolish hanging on the cross.

But faith is the willingness to look foolish. And that’s the kind of faith that saves you from the flood, kills giants, walks on water, and saves the world.

If you aren’t willing to look foolish you’re foolish.

One key to worship is the willingness to look foolish. You have to be willing to humiliate yourself if that’s what it takes to express your love for God. That’s what David does.

I’m posting one of my all-time embarrassing moments. I’ve never been more humiliated in my life. I’ve never felt more foolish.

Our team was doing reconnaisance at Mosaic in LA. And there was mutiny on the bounty. Erwin McManus asked for a volunteer dancer and our team volunteered yours truly. I was asked to do an interpretive dance for “chaos.” In retrospect, that was the perfect choice. It’s the only kind of dance I can do

One of the mutinuous team members had a video phone and captured part of my “dance.”

By the way, Erwin McManus owes me a favor! You’ll hear him laughing at me. Not with me

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