here in america
"We need the church because it
contains the truth (found in the creeds), because it has the songs that
teach us about the faith (found in the hymns), and because we need to
hear the Word of God, which according to Romans 10, is the means of the
faith (found in the Bible). For some, like Rich [Mullins], it also
offers us the body and blood of Christ, the spiritual nourishment
needed to sustain life. But there is something more we need: we need to
see Christ in one another.
God works through many means to reach us, but His primary means is through each other. We carry Christ to one another. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer explained and Rich believed, I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me. We need each other."
- from Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven
bought here in america yesterday. will be watching the dvd soon.
update: okay, so i didn't know that the percussion on "screen door" consisted solely of the cup game [play at speed, in quicktime, on loop, to get the idea]. i love that he made a song about a highly debated passage of the bible, and set it to a silly party game. also, i'm now fascinated with the dulcimer. i shall somehow attempt to learn the instrument before i die.
and to think: all the songs that have gone unwritten since 1997.
and i believe that what i believe
is what makes me what i am
i did not make it, no it is making me
it is the very truth of God
and not the invention of any man...
God works through many means to reach us, but His primary means is through each other. We carry Christ to one another. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer explained and Rich believed, I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me. We need each other."
- from Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven
bought here in america yesterday. will be watching the dvd soon.
update: okay, so i didn't know that the percussion on "screen door" consisted solely of the cup game [play at speed, in quicktime, on loop, to get the idea]. i love that he made a song about a highly debated passage of the bible, and set it to a silly party game. also, i'm now fascinated with the dulcimer. i shall somehow attempt to learn the instrument before i die.
and to think: all the songs that have gone unwritten since 1997.
and i believe that what i believe
is what makes me what i am
i did not make it, no it is making me
it is the very truth of God
and not the invention of any man...
mdog
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“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.... I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence....”
I read this in a friend's blog in January, and it was a healthy reminder at the time of the things that are really important.
i have access to another dulcimer, much nicer and more freshly strung than mine, if i ever feel the urge to play around with it. i have learned, and you can probably attest to this, that no stringed instrument seems too difficult to figure out, after having already figured out the guitar and the bass. the concepts are still the same...it just makes a different noise.
also, you should check out chelsea hindenbach. she's a fantastic appalachian mountain dulcimer player. she plays open stage at donkey, a lot, and just had her first solo show, on 24 june. watch for any of her future shows. you will not be disappointed.
yes, yes... i like the different noise. i'll have to check out ms. hindenbach sometime.