Forebode...
Think Blitzkrieg.
I went to that crazy ignition thing tonight. Hyped up for quite a while. Like Fanta. Don't get me wrong, Fanta is amazing, but when I first tried it, I thought 'that's all?' Hype makes you overexcited for things that do not credit that much excitement. Fanta is just really addicting. Why don't we have any here?
As for ignition, as the brilliant girl who sat beside me said, 'what are we doing here? They will say yay we are great Christians, then go out tomorrow and stay the same as we were. Nothing happens. We should be out there, in Victoria, doing something useful'. Maybe that shouldn't have quotation marks. I can't remember it exactly. You get the gist. I'm pretty sure the point of ignition was for us to go crazy in getting our friends to come, have them exposed to Jesus through some guy, and then help them Through if they want to, to be a Christian. I didn't do that. I would rather have ten people who didn't grow up in christianese to have been there instead of me. Or even just one. Sure, the bands were fun, But I would trade fun any day for giving someone a potentially, radically changed life. I didn't really get or care what he said. Maybe I should have more. Mostly I thought 'I've heard this. Tell it to someone who hasn't'. That someone I didn't bring...
They didn't ask a whole bunch of Christians to go out into Victoria because they intended to bring Victoria to them. Maybe it isn't to late. Ignition is a start of something. A fire perhaps. So, it isn't over?
I went to that crazy ignition thing tonight. Hyped up for quite a while. Like Fanta. Don't get me wrong, Fanta is amazing, but when I first tried it, I thought 'that's all?' Hype makes you overexcited for things that do not credit that much excitement. Fanta is just really addicting. Why don't we have any here?
As for ignition, as the brilliant girl who sat beside me said, 'what are we doing here? They will say yay we are great Christians, then go out tomorrow and stay the same as we were. Nothing happens. We should be out there, in Victoria, doing something useful'. Maybe that shouldn't have quotation marks. I can't remember it exactly. You get the gist. I'm pretty sure the point of ignition was for us to go crazy in getting our friends to come, have them exposed to Jesus through some guy, and then help them Through if they want to, to be a Christian. I didn't do that. I would rather have ten people who didn't grow up in christianese to have been there instead of me. Or even just one. Sure, the bands were fun, But I would trade fun any day for giving someone a potentially, radically changed life. I didn't really get or care what he said. Maybe I should have more. Mostly I thought 'I've heard this. Tell it to someone who hasn't'. That someone I didn't bring...
They didn't ask a whole bunch of Christians to go out into Victoria because they intended to bring Victoria to them. Maybe it isn't to late. Ignition is a start of something. A fire perhaps. So, it isn't over?
posted by AfterVerner at 12:40 a.m.
2 Comments:
The intent was so that it wouldn't be over...I guess they wanted to ignite something within people, Christian or not...if you feel convicted about not bringing anybody...then perhaps you going was a good thing...not so that you'd feel convicted, but so that you would be challenged and ignited in outreach. It's definitely not over!!
I agree, it isn't over! Some people where impacted that night, including some of our own. Ignition was the beginning and now we must walk the journey together. Where do we go from here? How can we get this message to those who haven't heard or don't even care? I like your passion, now use it!
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