iv mooved my blog to this adress
iammyownenemy.wordpress.com
there are three more blogs to look at there!
corey
Friday, April 6, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
its the eye of the tiger its the thrill...........
And now lets introduce our musical group for the evening their four good-looking young lads………
Time to pick a fight!
I was recently made aware of a book being carried in some Christian bookshop titled “can we rock the gospel” ( did a search on the old interweb to find the title).
I can’t remember who told me about it but they said they had a quick scan and surprise surprise these guys are on that old bandwagon again. These smart persons have this to say in their promo.
“Does God endorse music of every kind, regardless of its structure or features? Put another way, is there any music which does not get his seal of approval? Tightening this even further, are there musical forms or ways of using music that violate biblical principles and which Christians should therefore reject? The authors of this book, John Blanchard and Dan Lucarini sincerely believe that there are, and that the question takes on an even greater urgency as many influential church leaders and popular Christian musicians have recently claimed that God endorses all kinds of music without distinction. This book is an expression of their convictions and concerns. In writing this new book the authors have drawn heavily on the research of Pop goes the Gospel, first published in 1983 and Why I left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement, first published in 2002, and on the experience in handling the vast amount of feedback that both titles generated.”
Im going to try and steal a copy from the bookshop cause there is no way im paying for one. Maybe I could go in there with my old leather jacket and tight black jeans with a flying v guitar slung over my shoulder and tell the sales person that I have a "problem" with rock and roll. Maybe they will give me a copy.
Anyway I want to have a look at it and give them the benefit of the doubt but I know what im going to find.
First, have they ever heard any hip-hop? Don’t they know that just like when the first loonies were writing their original stupid freaking books on this subject that I was force fed in school that hip hop has a repetitive beat also and they swear and dance ..and drink too. Get with the times bros. And what about trance music! Oooh or death metal or hippy tulle oil music like Ben Harper. I think ill send these two dudes an email volunteering my services in like a school of rock style education in the relevance of rock in today’s culture.
I'm sick of people professing to know what “the biblical principals” of everything are. Its like when someone tells you to trust them, do you! Theres a million books in those shops all contradicting one another.
I think im going to bring out a rock opera that preaches the biblical principals of forcing your pointless trash opinions down vulnerable new Christian’s throats and parading them as the principals of God and making them pay for it. Or maybe ill call it (imagine this sung with the melody from bohemian rhapsody) …
If you don’t buy my book,
You’re going strait to hell.
Galeleo galeleo.
Friken idiots! Stryper preached me the gospel!
Corock
Ps: notice how they use a small h for the word "his" referring to God ooooh. Maybe were of the hook! Their talking about some other god ......small g. Im shaking my head.
Time to pick a fight!
I was recently made aware of a book being carried in some Christian bookshop titled “can we rock the gospel” ( did a search on the old interweb to find the title).
I can’t remember who told me about it but they said they had a quick scan and surprise surprise these guys are on that old bandwagon again. These smart persons have this to say in their promo.
“Does God endorse music of every kind, regardless of its structure or features? Put another way, is there any music which does not get his seal of approval? Tightening this even further, are there musical forms or ways of using music that violate biblical principles and which Christians should therefore reject? The authors of this book, John Blanchard and Dan Lucarini sincerely believe that there are, and that the question takes on an even greater urgency as many influential church leaders and popular Christian musicians have recently claimed that God endorses all kinds of music without distinction. This book is an expression of their convictions and concerns. In writing this new book the authors have drawn heavily on the research of Pop goes the Gospel, first published in 1983 and Why I left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement, first published in 2002, and on the experience in handling the vast amount of feedback that both titles generated.”
Im going to try and steal a copy from the bookshop cause there is no way im paying for one. Maybe I could go in there with my old leather jacket and tight black jeans with a flying v guitar slung over my shoulder and tell the sales person that I have a "problem" with rock and roll. Maybe they will give me a copy.
Anyway I want to have a look at it and give them the benefit of the doubt but I know what im going to find.
First, have they ever heard any hip-hop? Don’t they know that just like when the first loonies were writing their original stupid freaking books on this subject that I was force fed in school that hip hop has a repetitive beat also and they swear and dance ..and drink too. Get with the times bros. And what about trance music! Oooh or death metal or hippy tulle oil music like Ben Harper. I think ill send these two dudes an email volunteering my services in like a school of rock style education in the relevance of rock in today’s culture.
I'm sick of people professing to know what “the biblical principals” of everything are. Its like when someone tells you to trust them, do you! Theres a million books in those shops all contradicting one another.
I think im going to bring out a rock opera that preaches the biblical principals of forcing your pointless trash opinions down vulnerable new Christian’s throats and parading them as the principals of God and making them pay for it. Or maybe ill call it (imagine this sung with the melody from bohemian rhapsody) …
If you don’t buy my book,
You’re going strait to hell.
Galeleo galeleo.
Friken idiots! Stryper preached me the gospel!
Corock
Ps: notice how they use a small h for the word "his" referring to God ooooh. Maybe were of the hook! Their talking about some other god ......small g. Im shaking my head.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
the reaction
I talked at a few people today about stuff related to the previous post and IV decided that I want to be clearer about some of this stuff.
First thing I was thinking about was to expand the whole, if we really realized how GREAT God is, then how would we respond. One friend said that he thought it probably wouldn’t be with shouts and laughing and cheering but more like shock or like the feeling of being overwhelmed. I think I agree, when I think of God and His great attributes I feel small, I feel put in my place. I also feel amazed but it’s in a quiet kind of way. But as I’m writing, there is a desire in my heart to scream and expel mass amounts of energy in praise of His greatness.
How do I get a more in my face, true, big realization of God? Because it seems that if I really knew the truth about God and His greatness I wouldn’t care about the style of music or the crap P.A or my fears I would just break loose and worship.
Or maybe I need nothing to coax me to open up. Ok I mightn’t but what about the corporate setting how do we worship together? I still think it’s got to do with us seeking out the Greatness of our awesome God. Chasing Him down or looking for Him.
The truth is that honor and praise is what He wants, (kind of funny that that’s the same things I want also) but I want to give God praise like He never asked it from me! And I want my life to scream it. I'm afraid though, that my wants are far from my present reality.
corey
First thing I was thinking about was to expand the whole, if we really realized how GREAT God is, then how would we respond. One friend said that he thought it probably wouldn’t be with shouts and laughing and cheering but more like shock or like the feeling of being overwhelmed. I think I agree, when I think of God and His great attributes I feel small, I feel put in my place. I also feel amazed but it’s in a quiet kind of way. But as I’m writing, there is a desire in my heart to scream and expel mass amounts of energy in praise of His greatness.
How do I get a more in my face, true, big realization of God? Because it seems that if I really knew the truth about God and His greatness I wouldn’t care about the style of music or the crap P.A or my fears I would just break loose and worship.
Or maybe I need nothing to coax me to open up. Ok I mightn’t but what about the corporate setting how do we worship together? I still think it’s got to do with us seeking out the Greatness of our awesome God. Chasing Him down or looking for Him.
The truth is that honor and praise is what He wants, (kind of funny that that’s the same things I want also) but I want to give God praise like He never asked it from me! And I want my life to scream it. I'm afraid though, that my wants are far from my present reality.
corey
Monday, April 2, 2007
Sunday at the building we own!
We have a Sunday morning service where there is singing and preaching and fellowship!
My expectation for that service is that if we are going to worship then we should do it extravagantly!
Why are there more smiles and laughing after the service is over? We extravagantly love each other and each other’s company. (Fellowship).
Why don’t people go to the prayer meetings?
Prayer and worship are hard things to do. Maybe it’s too easy to “go to church”! Maybe that’s why so many people feel free to go to that service because they’re not challenged to break out of their comfort zone and worship extravagantly! Maybe were trying to entertain them with good sound and good music but I don’t think that is important.
My God is big, all-powerful, all knowing, all everything. He can create everything from nothing. His words are complete and new every day. He is the great everything! Greater than me, greater than the world, greater than the space in-between the stars. Those attributes alone deserve our most extravagant praise and those things should inspire us at the deepest and highest level to fall on our faces or scale mountains or die horrible deaths a million times over just to express our love for Him.
Then there are the true mysteries like grace, the understanding or even just the knowledge that this is what it is should overcome and destroy us. By destroy I mean make us useless for anything other than complete adoration.
Ok you say but I worship God in other ways. Well I say if the morning service is so important to our churches worship life and we’ve decided that music or whatever is how we worship as a body then should it be anything less than total devotion and complete abandonment? When I attend it doesn’t look like that at all. There are more sad faces than happy ones. And you might say how can you judge others way of worshiping? Ok I say fair point but look into it, is it true that we are indifferent in that forum (Sunday morning services).
In all this I include myself. I’m crap I don’t break through and worship extravagantly at all! But I will, IV decided! But you have to know that the reason it’s hard for me is because for one I’m scared. God might ask me to scream or shout His name or the thought of Him dying on the cross for me might send me to my face in sobs. And I’m afraid of what people might think, that’s my insecurity and my curse to deal with, ill wear that. But on that thought should I feel like that with my church? Is some of that fear some of us feel the churches responsibility? Is our expectation meant to be relative to our frame of reference? By that I mean is our expectation meant to be corporate in that setting, unified, one mind, one body of believers. Some say no but I say yes! God is worthy of our complete abandonment of fear of man, the desire of looking cool or tiredness or anything that would hold us back from a beautiful display of Love for our Good Father.
I’m tired I want to go Home! I want to love God more. Love God more? Could you love you love your wife more or your girlfriend or your mum or your friend? Yes, by going beyond what you want or how you feel or tradition or mindsets to serve them better and express to them in a greater way in all ways how much you appreciate them, how much you adore them and how much they mean to you. We always want more love from people it’s the cause of the most problems in relationships. Imagine how much God deserves! Do I give Him enough? NO. But I don’t want to do it because I need to or because it tradition or because I want something in return but purely as He loves me! Because He’s the best, and I believe it with all my heart. I do believe it with all my heart. And that’s why I hate Sunday at the building we own! My God is not emotionless, monotone, grey or clouded! He’s beautiful and radiant and colourful and full of emotion and passion. The thing is, that all these things He is full of, He is full of for us. And that is reason to be loud and passionate. And quiet as well.
corey
My expectation for that service is that if we are going to worship then we should do it extravagantly!
Why are there more smiles and laughing after the service is over? We extravagantly love each other and each other’s company. (Fellowship).
Why don’t people go to the prayer meetings?
Prayer and worship are hard things to do. Maybe it’s too easy to “go to church”! Maybe that’s why so many people feel free to go to that service because they’re not challenged to break out of their comfort zone and worship extravagantly! Maybe were trying to entertain them with good sound and good music but I don’t think that is important.
My God is big, all-powerful, all knowing, all everything. He can create everything from nothing. His words are complete and new every day. He is the great everything! Greater than me, greater than the world, greater than the space in-between the stars. Those attributes alone deserve our most extravagant praise and those things should inspire us at the deepest and highest level to fall on our faces or scale mountains or die horrible deaths a million times over just to express our love for Him.
Then there are the true mysteries like grace, the understanding or even just the knowledge that this is what it is should overcome and destroy us. By destroy I mean make us useless for anything other than complete adoration.
Ok you say but I worship God in other ways. Well I say if the morning service is so important to our churches worship life and we’ve decided that music or whatever is how we worship as a body then should it be anything less than total devotion and complete abandonment? When I attend it doesn’t look like that at all. There are more sad faces than happy ones. And you might say how can you judge others way of worshiping? Ok I say fair point but look into it, is it true that we are indifferent in that forum (Sunday morning services).
In all this I include myself. I’m crap I don’t break through and worship extravagantly at all! But I will, IV decided! But you have to know that the reason it’s hard for me is because for one I’m scared. God might ask me to scream or shout His name or the thought of Him dying on the cross for me might send me to my face in sobs. And I’m afraid of what people might think, that’s my insecurity and my curse to deal with, ill wear that. But on that thought should I feel like that with my church? Is some of that fear some of us feel the churches responsibility? Is our expectation meant to be relative to our frame of reference? By that I mean is our expectation meant to be corporate in that setting, unified, one mind, one body of believers. Some say no but I say yes! God is worthy of our complete abandonment of fear of man, the desire of looking cool or tiredness or anything that would hold us back from a beautiful display of Love for our Good Father.
I’m tired I want to go Home! I want to love God more. Love God more? Could you love you love your wife more or your girlfriend or your mum or your friend? Yes, by going beyond what you want or how you feel or tradition or mindsets to serve them better and express to them in a greater way in all ways how much you appreciate them, how much you adore them and how much they mean to you. We always want more love from people it’s the cause of the most problems in relationships. Imagine how much God deserves! Do I give Him enough? NO. But I don’t want to do it because I need to or because it tradition or because I want something in return but purely as He loves me! Because He’s the best, and I believe it with all my heart. I do believe it with all my heart. And that’s why I hate Sunday at the building we own! My God is not emotionless, monotone, grey or clouded! He’s beautiful and radiant and colourful and full of emotion and passion. The thing is, that all these things He is full of, He is full of for us. And that is reason to be loud and passionate. And quiet as well.
corey
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