I found this video on youtube:
and I'm not really sure what to make of it, I would appreciate your thoughts (ignore any previous comments that may have said I didn't really want your opinions, I was just having a bad day).
For me the questions it kicks up are things like:
Those people at the 'revival' are experiencing God...well, they at least *think* they are. Marjoe is 'praying' for them and they are falling down, now my point isn't whether falling over is a God thing or not, its the fact these people are reacting to what they think is God. Either they are faking it, they think it's real but its actually all in their heads or God is doing something.
I think is I had to, I would sway with the second option "they think it's real but its actually all in their heads", and so from there I'm starting to think about my time in church, is it all the hiss and fuzz of a band and singers? Could it be the lighting? And why does the air conditioning come on at the same point in the same part in the meeting, (the bit where the preacher starts to whip up the crowd.) The whiping up of the crowd doesn't really happen in OG, but I would say there is something very powerful in the music. Why does the worship leader play their guitar softly when they pray? Why is it that when the music stops we start talking about what we are going to do with the rest of our days that 'God's presence' seems to disappear? Surely if God is dwelling amongst the people he wouldn't just disappear when the music stops. But I suppose you have the people who continue being prayed for while we go off to get our teas and coffees. "God is still working on a couple of people around the room", why only a couple? Again, if God has turned up why aren't we all completely changed? Why do we (I), after 'meeting with God', still struggle with the same hang ups and the same issues? Why isn't it dealt with there and then?
Monday, 25 June 2007
So, um, yeah, thats alot of 'why's
Friday, 15 June 2007
This is pathetic
I know exactly what i should be doing, calling the police or someone. What a coward, a woman is getting abused and i'm thinking about me.
i can see in their lounge from my garden, on the wall is a photo of a boy aged only about 9 months old. i have no idea how i'll be able to sleep tonight!
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
today
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Monday, 11 June 2007
I snapped at someone
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