Here I Go Again On My Own...

Really, who doesn't love Whitesnake?

Well, It's been a while. I've been in an intensive class on Western Religions where we learned about Islam, Zoroastrianism, Mormonism, Judaism, and Eastern Orthodox. Why was Eastern Orthodox in a Western Rels class? The world may never know.
Here's what I really want to tell you: This past week I was leading worship for fathers day. We showed a video of a father who pushes his son in a wheelchair (the son has Cerebral Palsy) and they do Marathons together. Very moving and touching. After the video, I played the song "Your Love is Extravagant" by...Darrell Evans??? Anyway, that doesn't matter. What matters happened afterwards when I noticed a guy bawling his eyes out. "What Happened?", I thought, "Was it the video? Maybe the song?". I went and asked if I could pray with him and asked what was going on. I couldn't really understand what happened, but what I got out of it was that he felt bad for the life he and his girlfriend were living. It was at that moment that I realized that it wasn't an "element" of the service or a song or anything. It was the Holy Spirit.
Paul at Fool for Jesus is a recovering Pentacostal, and one of the things that he and I discussed is how the church relies so much on program and elements to move a service that we forget to let the Holy Spirit into the service to do the real work. It's not us who is going to move people to live for Jesus or even meet Him, but the Holy Spirit. We are just the mere mortals that the Spirit is going to use.
As I said in an earlier post, I don't want to convert anybody, I just want them to know the love of Christ through my actions and words. Essentially, It's the Holy Spirit that is going to move somebody to the point of decision of what/who the are going to love and believe, not the brown kid.

peace beaches,
ron

CD: I stole the new Jack Johnson from my brother. i love it. It sounds a lot like the other Jack Johnson stuff, but it's good. My favorite track is "Banana Pancakes".