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today God decided to let me in on how he is working all over Westerville through a number of our different leaders and I can't wait to see the fruit that is going to come from the way the adult leaders at Heritage are pouring into students. But, I was also struck by how much more work there is to do and how many more students need a connection. I need to pray for workers, because the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. And boy is it fun to harvest....

Here are a couple good words that relate pretty specifically to my distaste for most "Christian," music.

The Lamb has triumphed, and all creation knows in its bones that the creator God is remaking the universe, and is groaning with eager longing as it waits for it to come about. The whole world is already filled with God’s glory; that is precisely why we feel the present horror and shame of creation the way we do. There is an unbearable tension between the two realities. But the whole world will ultimately be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea, on the day when God makes all things new, and binds up every wound, and wipes away all tears from all eyes. The Christian contribution to the worlds of the arts, not least music, is therefore neither to collapse into sentimentality, to murmur the easy half-truths which comfort for a while but wither in the face of the horror of the world, nor to connive at that brutalism which, under the guise of ‘telling it like it is’, denies the very possibility of hope. The Christian contribution to the arts must lie along the line of listening to the longing and groaning of creation, a longing which is itself multi-dimensional because it is the evidence of the Spirit’s groaning and longing within the world, and expressing and portraying that longing both in its present agony and in its certain hope. NT Wright
I don't feel like much "Christian," music lives in the tension and thats why I'm drawn to songs like "Can't Stop," from the Chili Peppers, "Why," by the Roots "Let Go," by Frou Frou, or "Letting the Cables Sleep," from Bush. Lyrics in those songs that wrestle with our choices as we live in the beauty and filth which simultaneously surrounds us cause me to praise God and pray so much more than anything I normally run into on the River or RadioU.