“Top 10″ for Passion week 2012
Hey everybody! Last week was the profound privilege of attending Passion 2012 in Atlanta with four C!C students, my lovely wife Carrie, our newest baby Hannah, some friends from Eagles Landing First Baptist Church, . . . oh, and over 40,000 other people who love Jesus.
It was a wonderfully busy week full of fun, surprises, challenges, and encouragement in our Journey with Christ. Among the melee of experiences, here’s my “top ten” from the entire week (in no particular order).
10. Repeatedly getting separated from Carrie/Hannah and thus having to go through security with a diaper bag and no baby . . . oh, the strange looks.
9. JW Marriot. Oh, thank you Lord for fancy hotel beds and stellar pillows to help my body recuperate!
8. New songs. Singing songs of surrender, freedom and victory alongside tens of thousands of fellow worshippers, led by the likes of Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, David Crowder, Charlie Hall, and more!
7. Giving in support of ending modern day slavery . . . total money raised was over $3 million!!! In honour of C!C’s heart on this issue, we wrote the names of everyone we could remember from C!C on a pair of shorts to be a part of the monument for freedom!
6. Seeing Emily, Andrew, David and Ryan blessed by the great Christian community at the conference and with the ELFBC folks.
5. Meeting none other than Hank Aaron during our tour of Turner Field. If you don’t know who Hank Aaron is . . . shame on you — go Google it.
4. Best of the best: only at Passion could you listen to Lecrae followed by John Piper. That’s like awesomeness topped with fantabulastic!
3. Feeling conviction, courage, and hope for being more purposeful in sharing Jesus with my physical neighbours.
2. Riding public transit with dozens of pals, including our new friends from Casting Crowns . . . way to go MARTA.
1. Connecting with the story in 1Samuel 14, and praying that C!C would have the spirit of Jonathan and his armor bearer to go fight even if we’re the only ones . . . then, Lord willing, that our victory would awaken other believers to follow in the battle and that Ottawa would be won for Christ.