That’s how I’ve felt about this post as I’ve been thinking about how to write it over the past couple. Obviously, there are some words…I just don’t feel like they do justice to what I want to say. So yes, there are words…I just really liked that tile…Hold on, I’ve got to catch this rabbit REAL quick…
In all seriousness though. This past Sunday was my first Sunday back at First Baptist Georgetown (FBCgT), and it was great to see some people that I had not seen in a long time. The new bulletins were cool, and they had added some new intelligent lighing All very cool stuff.
During the worship music time, we sang two songs off of the God of this City cd from the Passion movement, the title track “God of This City”, and “Hosanna”. I bought this cd back when it first came out a couple months ago, and it is worth every cent. These guys know how to lead people in singing worship to our savior! So anyway…I walked away with something very cool from these two songs, after the service.
As most of you know, I have been working with the youth there for the past two years (minus this summer when I took an internship at Austin Baptist Church), and it has been a great experience. I love all of those kids, an it has been great to see a lot of them grow over the past few years. In the song “Hosanna”(as made famous by Hillsong), there is a line that says “I see a generation, rising up to take their place, with selfless faith”, and when that line came accross I was just kind of watching some of the youth worship, and five or six names of youth who are doing that, just popped into my head, and I lifted up a prayer of thanks for those students. A lot of people feel as though my “generation” and some younger are only interested in themselves, and that we’re going to the dogs. I myself sometimes get frustrated with the students I work with knowing that they know better than some decisions that they make. When I heard that though, it was just a really cool thing to experience.
The last song we did was God of This City (as made famous by Chris Tomlin who got it from this band Bluetree). I heart this song. I think it is an incredible anthem for this generation believers. They started singing it in Shockwave (the Wednesday night youth sevice at FBCgT) a while back, and the students love it. I don’t know how often (if at all) they have done it in the Sunday morning service, but from what I could see it did not look like many people knew it. Then out of no where, students bgan to stand up singing the song, and lifting their hands in praise to God. It was an AWESOME sight! Because they knew it, they were able to worship with abandon, and really basically lead the cngregation in terms of worship without thought to anyone else but themself anf their Jesus.
I atribute this to the series they just wrapped up “The Shockwave Worship Experience” which I was not there for, but have heard A LOT of great things about what it has done for those stdents in the way they view worship. Anyway though…I just really wanted to share that (and yes, honsetly, kind of brag on these sutdents) because it was a cool thing for me to experience right before I take off).
Still being amazed,
David
