Nerd Alert.

This past weekend, I drove to Washington State University to visit my sister, who goes to WSU and majors in something about broadcasting and Spanish.  It was pretty much a party all weekend, and on Sunday we pulled ourselves off of the couches in the basement to go to their church, called "Real Life."

Once there, I quickly realized that I was in the wrong spot.  This is what my brain immediately jumped to as an uncool church.  The nerd alert in my brain was blasting through my brain as I entered into a time of worship.

I couldn't stop thinking about how the woman keyboardist looked like Tina Fey.  The male keyboardist looked like Phil Collins.  Gabe from "The Office" was playing guitar, and the main singer kept throwing up hand gestures that I was convinced were Christian gang symbols that people who were holier than me knew.

I'm not used to this atmosphere.  My church has pool tables, people who dress in basketball shorts, and a worship pastor with mountain man facial hair.  We listen to Christian rap, and this church probably liked Michael W. Smith.  Yes, I was in a different style of church, and I was freaking out.

Then something in me began to stir.  The Jim Gaffigan look-a-like came out for announcements, and I laughed at his jokes.  Surely I was already becoming one of them, and might walk out of the church saying "thee", "thy", and calling people "bless-ed." 

But I kept being stirred.  A back-up pastor came up and began to speak about prayer, and it was awesome.  I found myself learning, and applying what he was saying to my life.  And I realized that the coolness of a church is based off of Christ, not cultural relevance. 

I began to process the amount of time that I think about what people think, rather than what I know about God, and what He thinks of me. 

I realized that people think that I look like a main character from "American Pie", and that that's a lot worse than looking like the guy who wrote the Tarzan soundtrack.

So as I go into life, I need to focus on Jesus, rather than myself.  I need to look to Him, so I know what I should be like.  I need to stop judging people.  And I need to realize what God has done for me, and what He will continue to do in this world.