#3 - concerts

I know concerts seem like a trivial thing, but they mean a lot to me. I don't know if you guys know this, but I was saved at a Third Day concert at the Alive Festival in 2005. And I don't know if you've ever been to a big Christian rock concert, but if you have, you know that you can just feel worship and love flying around the place, and then for a few seconds the music stops and everything is silent, and the band reads a Scripture or says a prayer, and it's the most amazing feeling ever. During a Third Day show this past summer (pictured at the top as well :]), the entire crowd was asked to join hands with the people beside them and start dancing. It was just this huge crowd of interconnected people praising God, and I was thinking about that, and that's exactly what life is, too. I don't know if I've ever understood being part of the Body of Christ more than I did then. And it's not just Third Day shows that are amazing but those were the two that I thought of today. In the end, concerts have taught me that God speaks in so many ways: He doesn't just use silence, but noise to the point that your ears ring for days afterward, and not just stillness but the motion of a thousand people that doesn't stop. God cannot be confined to a hymn book (nothing against hymns, but personally, if the only Christian music I'd ever heard were these traditional organ songs, I would DEFINITLEY not be the person I am now) or inside one person. He's too big, too incredible, and far too creative for that :]