This past Tuesday, I and four friends decided to pile in to my little Honda Civic and head to San Antonio to see go to a church service with a guest speaker and worship leader. The guest speaker was Corey Russell. He is one of the main pastors at IHOP (International House of Prayer) in Kansas City, MO, and I love listening to him preach. This past Christmas break I went to Kansas City to a conference and his sermons was definitely one of my favorites. Rick Pino was the worship leader and although I have never heard him lead worship, I was very excited to worship with him because I have heard great things about him. While driving the three hour drive to San Antonio I was sitting there thinking that my friends and I are a little crazy in the head. We were willing to drive six total hours, get home around three in the morning, and have to turn around and go to class the next morning, just to go to a two hour church service. This thought brought me back to how in high school I would drive three hours just to go see our football team play a game or another sporting event. When I did that I never once thought I was going crazy, but why would I think such a thought when going to worship God? It’s because our culture thinks it isn’t worth it. You can go all out and look like a crazy person for a sporting event, but if you worship and love Jesus with the same enthusiasm you are considered to be crazy. The thing is, is that it was totally worth it! God met my friends and I in a powerful way that night and I would totally do that all over again. It’s really cool that my culture is changing to where I use to drive and do crazy things for sports, but now I am doing that for Jesus and it is so much more worth it and life giving! Have you noticed little culture changes in your life since coming to college?
Friday, March 1, 2013
My Changing Culture
This past Tuesday, I and four friends decided to pile in to my little Honda Civic and head to San Antonio to see go to a church service with a guest speaker and worship leader. The guest speaker was Corey Russell. He is one of the main pastors at IHOP (International House of Prayer) in Kansas City, MO, and I love listening to him preach. This past Christmas break I went to Kansas City to a conference and his sermons was definitely one of my favorites. Rick Pino was the worship leader and although I have never heard him lead worship, I was very excited to worship with him because I have heard great things about him. While driving the three hour drive to San Antonio I was sitting there thinking that my friends and I are a little crazy in the head. We were willing to drive six total hours, get home around three in the morning, and have to turn around and go to class the next morning, just to go to a two hour church service. This thought brought me back to how in high school I would drive three hours just to go see our football team play a game or another sporting event. When I did that I never once thought I was going crazy, but why would I think such a thought when going to worship God? It’s because our culture thinks it isn’t worth it. You can go all out and look like a crazy person for a sporting event, but if you worship and love Jesus with the same enthusiasm you are considered to be crazy. The thing is, is that it was totally worth it! God met my friends and I in a powerful way that night and I would totally do that all over again. It’s really cool that my culture is changing to where I use to drive and do crazy things for sports, but now I am doing that for Jesus and it is so much more worth it and life giving! Have you noticed little culture changes in your life since coming to college?
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Ryan, I'm going to need a phone call next time. Those guys are great! I definitely know what you mean as far as what is considered a valid reason to do something extreme and what may not be considered as much so. In regards to whether it is culturally celebrated to do what you did, my thoughts are that America currently has an over abundance of people preped, ready, and eager to follow someone else's lead. Thinking people with oppinions and passions all their own are a much rarer commodity. Way to value something and go for it!
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