Andy Warhol theorized that we all get fifteen minutes of fame in our life. Well I think I experienced about two or three of mine last week. I was standing in line at a store and the checker said to me, "Hey, don't you play percussion at Jacob's Well?" I said yes and introduced myself.

I felt a little exposed but I don't know why. I think I was just caught off guard. Like earlier tonight, I was with Tim Keel at O'Dowds up on the deck enjoying a couple of cigars. As Tim walked by a table of young women, one of them said, "Hey, it's pastor Tim!"

These couple of events made me think of two things:

1.) How cool it is to run into people from JW outside the bounds of a sanctioned church event. I'm realizing that there is no longer a division in my life between my "church life" and some other "secular life." I'm who I am 24/7 and for the first time comfortable with that.

2.) Running into people from JW on a regular basis makes me feel in proximity to my community. I mean, there are about a million and a half people in the greater KC area and what are the chances of running into any one of a couple of hundred of them - regularly?

Anyway, I'm left wondering who I'll run into tomorrow...