Treading Water

Does it make sense to constantly move towards something even if it isn't there? There could be something there, something awesome.... but then again, there could be nothing.

The more and more I think about this "event" we've been planning, the more I realize we are still not doing this for the right reasons. We are all passionate about music, but praise and worship is more than that. It's not about playing music. I think I have the tendency to forget that, which is really bad.

The Unity Projekt has pretty much stopped moving toward this thing we've been talking about forever and we're rewinding a little. Patrick made an interesting point a while back. He said "I am still trying to get to the bottom of what we are trying to achieve" That pretty much sums up our event, currently.

I've rambled on in detail about what I want this event to be in a previous blog, but I think I'll give it another go. My idea for this "event" is to really motivate everyone in our youth group and non-Christians to do something. My view on life in today's society is that we grow up, go to college, get married, have kids, and die. I don't think that's necessarily what God had in mind for us. I mean, the above are things we all should do but as Christians, God challenges us to be more. Not just being loving and caring but truly reaching out to people.

I tend to think of things in such a large scale that I don't notice what is right in front of me. It's a constant struggle for me to be the loving and caring Christian that I need to be. I sometimes forget that love is big part. I think I try to go for the whole reaching out thing. That's bad too. It's something I think about everyday.

But anyways, I think that the theme of this event should be a challenge for us all to "start something." We need to have the fire in our hearts be one of those California forest fires that spreads over everyone and everything. That's a pretty paradoxical way of saying that but I think it's a pretty good analogy if you can follow me...

Anyways, Ethan and I have also thought about making Start Something some kind of youth leadership group thingy. By challenging the upperclassmen, the underclassmen will follow suit.

Start Something: Make Forest Fires!

"The Event"

I have been thinking a lot about this event the Ethan, Adam, Benji, Paul, and I want to do at the church. Ethan and I recently talked about the purpose of this event. Its original purpose was to get a recording of our music so we could have some material. We've since changed our focus.

Ethan and I were talking and kind of came to the same realization that this event shouldn't be about us at all. All this time, we've been viewing this as our worship band's "coming out" but if we want the event to be for us, than we shouldn't have it at all. I want the event to be an outreach. I want to start something in Fort Wayne.

I've been listening to David Crowder Band and Hillsongs: United a lot lately. The more I think about our band and the future, the more I realize that I want to be focus on the right issues. I want Fort Wayne to be united. I want the youth to be united, under one God. The only God. I don't want to be segregated by denominations of Christianity. I want a church, not a building. I keep saying want, however. I don't want to be self-centered about this. I just don't think we're reaching kids on a deep enough level. The Sunday routine isn't cutting it. I, being a kid, want to challenge the youth to not be a part of a church but be a church. A church as a community, a community united, united not under one denomination, denominations becoming what they were intended to be: Christians.

United Fort Wayne: Start Something

In the Beginning...

there was xanga. And then, there was the myspace blog. And now I feel the urge to start yet another blog that I will probably abandon within the next year. But hey, everyone else is doing it so I might as well!

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Really, Really Old Blogs:

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Let the heavens open up. Let your mercy rain on us. Your grace, it lasts forever. Your hope will light the world. Everything connected is good. Look what God has shone. Anywhere there is truth, there is God. He saves, He wakes us, He is, always will be.

Be still and know that He is God.

In you I find everything, but in my mind I'm empty and everything is failing. All I see is you. Standing in the darkness over my shameful progress. Worth nothing but pain and heartache. All I see is you.

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Return! Return! The light returns!

Return! Return! Your child returns!

Everything is broken. Your light will show the way and you rebuild the pieces. Your life, your son, the way. See the distance, I'm coming. You were never far. The prodigal son returns. You are always there.

Return! Return! The light returns!

Return! Return! Your child returns!

And my heart is guarding, but peace you bring. It will still be harder. Now you are my king. My mind is now against me. Your truth is awhat I fear. I try to question everything. Your truth is always near.

Return! Return! The light returns!

Return! Return! Your child returns!