Listening to: 'Again' by Jon Foreman
Bish will be your best bet for getting a good roundup of the week's activites, but here's my 2 pennies.
Loved the week. Really chaotic and buys for me, but I wouldn't have changed it! I got to play in the band, which is always a delight; my colleagues Kenny, Lewis, Dave, Squid, Kiri, and Kat were fantastic bandmates. Had some very moving moments looking out over the marquee full of 800 or so students lifting their voices, hands, and hearts to the Lord. I loved having opportunity to teach 'Hark the Voice of Love and Mercy' from Red Mountain Music, and watching the students over the week pick-up the song and learning to love it. Especially touched by the final morning when the mud was at its wort, the marquee at its unsteadiest, and the tiredness at a high: everyone in the tent rising to sing together in response to Graham Daniels on the challenge of evangelism,I am not ashamed, I know Whom I've believed
Had to hold back the tears!
For God Himself has come to me, now Jesus is my destinty
I know I am changed, and all You've given me
This hope, this love, this life; I can't deny Your power within me
So here I am, send me
Wonderful to see the FREE Gospel project launched. Had a great meet-up with theology boys Jono Simpson and Ben Clark- love these guys! Enjoyed a late night walk with Reeves chatting about Christ. Got to have a great chat with John Piper and David Matthis. Made some cool new friends. Got snored-out of our room. Tried to skip onto the stage and fell off in front of a few hundred people. Heard from Becky about Relay 1 and how much she loved that. Enjoyed Dave Perkins making music with a vintage Game Boy using his guitar pedals and amp. Watched students sliding for miles in the mud on their fronts (deliberately). Led a seminar for worship leaders, and was so encouraged by their thought, enthusiasm, and perspective. Got booed by about 300 students when, to test them, I contradicted Reeves after his seminar on Trinity.
Overall, a most enjoyable week. I'm proud and pleased to be part of UCCF and all it's doing at this time. UCCF is intentionally about the CUs which make it up, and the students who comprise them. That makes Forum in a way the definitive family gathering- like Christmas, but with slightly different food. Watching these key student leaders- the opinion leaders, trailblazers, wavemakers- all together, getting taught, having fellowship, worshipping, and growing in love for Christ was just brilliant. What a privilege to be there.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Forum 2008
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Amen! I was awfully glad you managed to say on the 2nd singing of Hark the voice that it was written in the 1700s - glad that Red Mountain Music have written a new tune to it, but I grew up singing it :)
It was good to chat to you briefly after your seminar - to see the face behind the blogger as it were. I've had at least two requests from people in my CU to introduce Hark the Voice of Love and Mercy to my CU... though having downloaded the music, I think you played one of the chords differently? Still not home so can't try it out yet.
On Hark the Voice - you changed the lyric on law, trying to remember what you changed it too...
Mathew- I think I played the Cs and C7s on the whole. Other than that, I kept to the music! Good to meet you too. Enjoy introducing it to the CU.
Bish- I changed the lyric on law to 'Finished all the types and shadows of the law that went before'. The lyrics will be public domain, so it's not a problem to do that. The original line was 'Finished all the types and shadows of the ceremonial law'... didn't want to have that blasted out across UCCF!
Gives me chills just to read this. I can still remember last year's so vividly. Lindsay Brown on Acts 17 was genuinely (and hopefully permanently) transforming and singing 'Facing a task unfinished' will stay with me..
Been great to keep up with what was going on through Dave Bish's blog and texts from friends. Read his report of the world night and it set my heart going. Sounds like a lot went on in people that night.
I love UCCF for its gospel-everythingness.
A very helpful and wise edit imho, and a great song.
P.s. Dan, what was your chosen heresy? I seem to remember confessing to you at NWA that I was tempted by modalism... :-p
All sounds great. Apart from the food.
At Forum, I survived off Pot Noodles and sweets.
Iain- I just said something like, 'So I hear you're all experts on the doctrine of God now. Would I be right in saying that God is an eternal, infinite substance?'
So less heresy and more like deeply unhelpful language. Or, perhaps it is heresy!
Having got to a piano, I was sure you were playing Em rather than G in the first time of the repeated phrases at the end of the verse. Maybe I imagined it!
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