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Wow. Brian McLaren. That pretty much says enough if you’ve read any of his books. Some love him. Some hate him. I just prefer to glean what ideas and truth I can off of him and pray God teaches me something through him. It, like the interview session with Gilles Ste-Croix, was a sit down question and answer with the topic of “How can artists be a part of changing the world?”.

Here are his thoughts:

• Unprepared -> “letting the Spirit lead” -> “Winging it” must stop. He mentioned “letting the Spirit lead” as a joke toward people who use it as an excuse for not doing any preparation.
• If the church won’t help the world, the rock(star)s will cry out. Bono, for one.
• Proverbs 21:3 “If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.” NIV
• Matthew 26:11 “The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.”
• Deuteronomy 15:10-11 “Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.” NIV
• Jesus’ message and purpose was not simply a fire escape plan. It was to bring heaven to earth, the Kingdom of Heaven He called it. “May [His] will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”
• Our religious system is set up to render to us certain results. Must we change the system?
• Are we only saved from hell or also saved from wasting our lives?
• We can’t make an either/or out of something intended to be a both/and. In this case it isn’t helping our churches or helping the world. It’s both that we have been called to.
• We receive the Gospel to not only be transformed, but also to be an agent of transformation in people’s lives.
• Jesus came into a system of despair and hopelessness. He offered a new story of hope, redemption, and revelation.
• We tithe 10% but it isn’t alone in the plan of God. He has plans for our other 90% as well.
• We can’t “make povery history” until we make poverty personal.
• We have made the church better with our art. Do we realize God has called us to use our art to make the world better as well?
• The world knows we are His by our love.

We ended with a great time of worship.

And Willow also has a ProTools Venue Yamaha PM1D which they track in ProTools.

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