Great post.

It is ironic isn't it? I'll never forget, I must have been in 6th or 7th grade... the newspaper headline 'God is Dead', it made headlines, John Lennon's statement... then I was in college... sharing an apt at the time... my roommate comes running in screaming 'John Lennon was shot and killed!.. and I jsut sort of looked at her, kind of confused really at why she should be so upset, she was really upset.. and I said 'Well, John Lennon is dead then.'

She got more upset that I said that. But really, there's a big difference between John Lennon saying 'God is dead' and God saying 'John Lennon is dead'.

God is not mocked.

I used to listen to a lot of new wavy punk type stuff.. I had a couple hundred cds.. and then suddenly I was in the midst of the throes of my salvation experinece.. and Jesus was all over me... I was really a mess... I was still involved in many of my bad habits... a really big mess... and he was speaking to me, checking in daily... really, I would hear him sometimes like a person standing next to me... never saw him.. It was Yashua Hamashiach himself I do sincerely believe... and one day in the midst of it all I am in my studio in my little house.. sitting on the couch... and I turn on this real off the edge music.. cannot repeat what they were saying... but the Lord he said 'Turn it off now. those people are condemned.'

quote unquote Those people are condemned

hmmmm oh. I did turn it off. I threw a lot of cds out after that don't want them in my house anymore. I guess if I had to choose it's Jesus hands down. easy choice.

There was this big huge revival going on a couple hundred miles north of me, i never knew till a couple years later.. but I think a lot of people got saved that never made it to the church that was famous for the revival... Others have told me me some real interesting stories that closely mirror my own experience. it wasn't really just that church I think, that church was just part of a bigger plan of God's, it was going on in homes too.. like mine.

Jesus did lead us to a church nearby a while after that. things would have been a lot easier for me during it all if I had had a good church to depend on begin with.

but we got there eventually I guess.

anyway, God is not mocked. ever.