[On stage is a large dry erase board. Ed, during the message, is going to draw two funnels that will work into the message. He is also going to write down the individual decision making styles as he talks about each one. When Ed begins to speak, many people are still making their way into the worship center.]

Wow! People are still coming in. You guys, welcome to Fellowship Church up there in the balcony. They"re still coming in. Alright! I like that. Sometimes we"re late, too. It"s part of it. I understand"traffic and all that. It"s kind of funny to watch people come in late to church, isn"t it?

Oh, boy! Last weekend I made the decision to show a video edition of the message. Were you here for that? Isn"t it great that we have the technology to do that. Some of you are asking, "What"s he talking about?" Well, you weren"t here. Busted! Last time, I did a message on Saturday and I really liked it a lot so I thought, "You know what? We"ll just show it on the Sunday service." And so we did. We have these cool screens around the worship center, several of them I think. One of the big ones dropped down, and I just sat in the balcony right up there and watched the message with everyone. It was really kind of weird doing that. It was fun.

Let me kind of set the stage for you before I get into what we"re talking about today. We"re going to talk about something in kind of a unique way. I"m going to do some teaching and I want to get to where we"re going next week right now, but I can"t because we have got to cover this material. I think this material we"re going to talk about today is awesome, but next time" Let me kind of give you an advertisement of where we"re going next time. Next time we"re talking about seeking wise counsel. We"re in this series about decisions, and today"s comments will set us up for next weekend when we conclude this series called "Multiple Choice."

And speaking about Multiple Choice and all of that" A while back, Lisa and I were in this restaurant with our family, and this restaurant was very kid friendly. I mean they knew how to take care of children! And they gave our kids these special placemats. And I looked at the placemats and they were these giant mazes. I watched as our kids took those red Crayola crayons and negotiated these mazes. And this maze had a start, and then at the end it said, "You"re home!" After about four or five minutes all the kids said, "Dad, we"re home! We made it!"

We were like, "Yeah! That"s incredible. You negotiated the maze. Good job!"

Ed Young thought to his self, "Wouldn"t it be cool if decision making was that easy. We could just, you know, have a little maze and a red Crayola crayon and make a right turn" Oh, wrong turn! I"ll kind of go left and then"okay, we"re home. Yeah! Wouldn"t it be great if we could make decisions that easily? But life is not that easy.