"Eight-Hundred Pound Jesus"

Here's an instant replay of what happened in worship:

We heard the band sing "800 Pound Jesus."
We realized that, even though it's a cheesy song, it tells the story of a guy who attempted suicide. Jesus literally saves the guy's life. There are people with real-life versions of this song. How would we live differently if we were aware everyday that Jesus had saved us?
We thought about the third verse of the song - after Jesus saves the guy's life, he plants flowers and buys lawn ornaments as a "thank you." Are our tokens of thanks as tepid as that?
We learned about how God was saving lives even back in the Old Testament. King David was on the run from his son Absalom. The words of Psalm 3:1-4 were written about this dark and sorrowful time in David's life. Yet, as David's head is bowed in sorrow and fear, he knows that God will "lift up my head."
We know that God is in the business of changing lives, of saving us from ourselves. We watched a video of cardboard testimonies, stories of real people who had moved from a life of "before" to a life of "after."
We wrote out our own "cardboard testimonies" and offered them as thanks to God.
We prayed that God would make us truly thankful for being saved.
We celebrated communion around the small tables, remembering on this World Communion Sunday that we gather at Christ's table with our brothers and sisters around the world.