Hillerious?
for the first time in 8 years i haven’t made the pilgrimage to the australian alps for the Young Life winter camp, but this gave me the chance to check out sydney’s wonderful hillsong conference, 20 years strong.
ok so i admit i had alteria motives for going along last night, delirious? were playing and i am a huge fan.
So the night started with finding our seats right up up uppp in the rafters on the Acer Arena, we were sitting behind the stage... i was a little pissed... but then we got moved to one section that was better, then another that was even better (reminding us of our last hillsong seating fiasco)
Anyway.... the night started with a really quite good video and then the band cut in with 2 rather lackluster songs, it was hard to really get into it and jump around fearing you may slip and fall 20 stories to you death...
After that was the obligatory giving talk where i believe the guys point was about being high yield and low maintenance, i have know idea what he meant but at least it was too baffling to be terrible...
finally they unleashed delirious? on stage, and it was worth sitting through the rest, these guys just love to rock out and worship all in the same breath! They played a good mix in there 9 song set, mainly from the Mission Bell album but with the old skool History Maker thrown in for good measure.
so after a great time with delirious? we then had to sit through some guy called Rick Goodwin, now as he walked out on stage i was like "Quick call ray martin, i have found the guy who stole his hair" but apart from the plastic fantastic look of the guy he spoke about being Salt. Now i have heard most of what he said before, in fact i don’t think any of his ideas or points were that original but he also seemed to contradict himself a few times when it comes to the application. I find it hard when you hear these mega church guys say something and you say "i agree with that" but then there application of the point is sooo off the mark!! for example...Rick said, as many others have noted, that salt brings out the flavor in food, it exists to enhance other things not bring attention to itself. Now i agree and my application of that would be that we need to bring salt to our culture, to redeem those things in our culture through Jesus, but somehow Rick made it that we need to create our own culture the is counter culture to the world around us.... not does that not seem like a big bowl of salt? i don’t want to eat a bowl of salt...
anyway thats my rant, more rants soon im sure.... oh by the way check out this vid by the chaser on hill$song
peace
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an intresting yet over looked fact about salt is that In his painting 'The Last Supper', Leonardo da Vinci put an overturned salt cellar in front of the ill-fated Judas Theres one for all you da vinci code nuts ..... oh and it also causes high blood pressure just like hillsong (giggles) good to see you back blogging !!! yea yea !!!!
Ps i heard it was Mc donalds salt ....
tripple J hack
Dude, our last Hill$ong seating fiasco was us getting taken to worse and worse seating. We got sent to the naughty seats.
yes but lets face it... we deserved the naughty seats ;)
I guess it just all goes to 'there is a season....' a time and place for all sorts of things. Yeah I didn't see anything saying we are supposed to have our own counter culture, but who am I to speak?
ps I havent been by in a while - I got tired of seein that gym post..haha
i know i had to get rid of it i was starting to "turn"... ;)
It is interesting to see the younger Christian culture reaching out in the world. Salt in important to life! How it is used is important. Good point.
ive given up on the salt/flavour argument, one of the reasons is that it seems to assume that food has no flavour until salt is added, this is a particularly western idea... in the third world countries people are encouraged to have salt because it's healthy, well, because the iodine in it helps to prevent gout, however we can't use that metaphor here because most of the salt we have on our shelves has the iodine removed, hence why it's important to help refugees to stop using so much salt on their food when they move to Australia and other countries because the salt is no longer healthy, in fact, its unhealthy to continue to eat that much salt.
pete rollins in his book "how not to speak about god" suggests another metaphor, that salt inspires thirst, he also suggests that we've been offering food to people who are not hungry, and as such need to be making smells and noises that inspire hunger, to be salt therefore is to be people who inspire people to think about life, mission, other people, love... god.
congrats on the bappo job dude...
ive never had any issues blogging and working for the church full time :)
well you havnt worked for a bappo church yet ;)
I do like that look at the Salt... of cause it wasnt like i was going to get anything too great from some word of faith dipwad at a hill$ong conference anyway.....
hey will have to catch up when next in canberra too...
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