Whales and The Judgment

So lots of thought provoking things occurred this weekend.

First, the Chris Tomlin concert. One word. Powerful. I was reminded how powerful the human voice is when we allow our souls to open and freely flow and pore out cries of praise to our Almighty, All POWERFUL God. Christ mentioned that last night, we were one church, which I also felt powerful. He said we were "a mixture of flavors" all combining to be one powerful church in powerful worship. I liked that alot. Usually these days when someone asks what I am I simply say "a follower of Jesus Christ." then they say "no I mean what church do you do you go to?" and I say "well the church is the people, so I guess who ever I am with" which of course is not the answer they are wanting but it is true, isn't it? Growing up in a legalistic C.O.C. maybe I have a chip on my shoulder towards donminationalism. It erks me. but anyy whooo, that's a whole nother blog in and of it's self. Next key point of the Chris Tomlin Concert, Louie Giglio spoke. It was the first time I have had the privilege of hearing him speak and I could see what all the hype was about. He was really good at making his point and driving it home. He spoke of Psalm 148."Praise the Lord." and praising the Lord, all the star, animals, angels, creatures of the sea. It was very good and I had never really thought about that psalm much before. He played some radio frequencies from stars jillions of Miles away in outer space. SO COOL! I have always loved star gazing but never thought that a star might make a sound and the rotate eleven or a million times on its axis per second. It makes a sort of rhythm kind of sound. Then he played whale singing. I don't know if you have ever watched a video of whales singing, but whale quite frankly are very adorable when they sing. So he tried to give us a little Minuit glimpse of what all the heaven and earth praising the Creator might sound like. He got out his ipad(of course) and used a sound board ap to add them all together then slowly it started to sound like How Great is Our God and every one in the audience stood up and started singing along, POWERFUL. All in all I recommend every one go to a Chris Tomlin concert before they die=)

K, So church this morning. The topic was Reaching Out in Jesus. Telling people they are lost. It is an uncomfortable topic. I would imagine it is uncomfortable for most Christians. No one likes to think of Hell or people going to Hell, not just the bad guys but possibly friends, our first grade teacher, loved ones. Needless to say we were all squirming in our seat in the college class. Christ, however, in John chapter 4 cut right to the chase when he was talking with the Samaritan woman. His second sentence was about salvation. What if we all were like that? I feel it is on us when we allow those we know to be lost. To never mention our Savior to them. That is all on us and I don't want to face God one day and try to explain why I let those i care for go with out knowing the truth. The crazy lady I work with go with out hearing the good news. So what if we told EVERYONE! Would there be a difference in this world? CHYEAH! I would like to think so.

"If Christianity was only about finding a group of others to live life with, who shared openly their search for God and allowed any one regardless of behavior , to seek too, and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like heaven, would you be interested?"-Hugh Halter and Matt Snag, The Tangible Kingdom.