Since May 2009 (when I attended the Evangelism Training Academy) I had not been up "on the box" until last night (Jan 11, 2010).
Now, other than being able to play "Meant to Live" on my guitar, I don't listen to Switchfoot at all. They are, supposedly, a Christian band, and the local Christian radio stations like to bill them as such. Now, I can't say I wasn't being a bit judgmental when I saw that they were playing in a pub of sorts, but I figured it was a place where lots of people that needed to hear the gospel would hang out. They even made a note on their website that alcohol would be available nearby... ahem...
Well, anyway, legalism aside... it was certainly a place where the gospel needed to be shared.
Switchfoot Concert (first open air since Academy)
Posted by Eternal Labels: Evangelism, Open Air Preaching, The GospelThis is an excerpt taken from a White Horse Inn broadcast:
The most corrosive effect of pop culture is that it segregates generations. Historically, all cultures have had ways of passing convictions from one generation to the next. But because of mass media, for the first time in history, we have the notion that each of us is a culture unto ourselves. [Through things like Facebook and MySpace we can create our own "me" cultures] We can pick and choose clothing styles, music styles, or any other style of anything we want, and it has nothing to do with the tradition of our parents. It has nothing to do with the place we came from...
The natural way of God's redemptive purposes is multigenerational. This is the idea that from one generation to the next, there is an expected continuity that is richly covenental. This idea versus traditional embodiment of cultural convictions.
In other words:
Yesterday, I listened as a woman described her husband as he lay on his death bed. The doctors had diagnosed him terminal throat cancer, and told the family that he would be dead within 24 to 48 hours.
I was concerned about the man's eternity, and began to question his wife as to where she thought would happen to him when he died. The point of this post, though is this:
She described how the hospital "minister" had been following her around the entire time she was there. The minister (a PhD - of what I do not know) described what they (as Catholics) needed to do for her husband to be reconciled to the Catholic church prior to his death. The priest had told them that he would only offer an "annointing of healing" if he (the husband) would reconcile to the Catholic Church.
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