drummerboy
The Fly
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2000
- Messages
- 93
I was at the Creation Festival (a 4 day long christian music festival in central Pennsylvania) yesterday, and while I was walking around I noticed that DATA had an information booth set up, which of course I thought was cool since they were playing U2 from it, so I signed up.
Later that evening during his concert Michael W. Smith ( a fairly big name in the christian music world) was talking about sharing God with others by pouring yourself and your life into them, and then shared a story about meeting Bono at the Grammys where the two talked at length about Africa and the church's responsibility there. That story led into about a 3 minute video clip that Bono recorded for the festival, where he basically encouraged people that it was our responsibility as Christians to love our african brothers as we love ourselves, and that a big way that we could do that was by contacting our governements and supporting debt relief. Smith then came back on and said that from his meeting with Bono he could feel that this was someone whom God was stirring in and through whom God was doing some powerful things in Washington. He then encouraged the crowd to pray for Bono and his efforts, as well as the African people, then went into a sweet cover of "40" as one of his final songs of the evening.
It seemed that Bono's message was well recieved by the crowd, many of whom had probably not heard it from the conventional music world coverage. I know that the church can be a highly motivated force in the world of politics when it wants to be, so here's hoping that this video being shown at both Creation festivals (there's an East and a West, each attract about 80,000 people to them) will help Debt Relief along all the more.
- andy
Later that evening during his concert Michael W. Smith ( a fairly big name in the christian music world) was talking about sharing God with others by pouring yourself and your life into them, and then shared a story about meeting Bono at the Grammys where the two talked at length about Africa and the church's responsibility there. That story led into about a 3 minute video clip that Bono recorded for the festival, where he basically encouraged people that it was our responsibility as Christians to love our african brothers as we love ourselves, and that a big way that we could do that was by contacting our governements and supporting debt relief. Smith then came back on and said that from his meeting with Bono he could feel that this was someone whom God was stirring in and through whom God was doing some powerful things in Washington. He then encouraged the crowd to pray for Bono and his efforts, as well as the African people, then went into a sweet cover of "40" as one of his final songs of the evening.
It seemed that Bono's message was well recieved by the crowd, many of whom had probably not heard it from the conventional music world coverage. I know that the church can be a highly motivated force in the world of politics when it wants to be, so here's hoping that this video being shown at both Creation festivals (there's an East and a West, each attract about 80,000 people to them) will help Debt Relief along all the more.
- andy