Bono’s Speech
Yesterday I came across a link to a video of Bono’s speech at the prayer breakfast that I linked to a while back. I am tempted to embed it here to force you to watch it … but that would be cruel to the dail-up guys!! Wacth it now!!
“Religion often gets in the way of God”
“in the US there is God’s second-hand car salesmen on their tv cable channels offering indulgences for cash”
“This is not about charity it is about Justice”
Oh, and I got this Easter quote over the weekend, which I liked:
Today is Good Friday, and Sunday is Easter – but how many of us want Easter perks without Calvary pain? A friend of mine wrote: “We are more concerned with happiness than holiness. We seek to be served rather than to serve. We want a church that makes us feel good rather than one which challenges us. So often we opt for a religion that costs us little. We stress our rights, not our responsibilities; our freedom in Christ rather than our debt to Christ; our security rather than our sacrifice.” [came from here]
April 19th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
thats really good, i think we so often think about what god can give us and how amazing that is, but then its not so often about what we can give back. is that just cos were people and we’re like that, always thinking what we can GET, or is that some kind of reflection on our society at the moment in general?
April 20th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Good questions em … a bit of both maybe?
We live in a world where we expect to be able to control our environment - we effectively expect to be able to make our own purpose built, custom made world. Trouble is that it never works…
The growing/maturing process [even from children to adults] should begin to cause to look outside of ourselves. To begin to “look to others interests before our own”, to “love our neighbour as ourselves”. For many of us inside the church and out, we have not grown up … but then that transformation process is helped by the Holy Spirit, as we co-operate. Phew!
April 20th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
I’m still liking the speech!… Stop asking God to bless what you are doing, but get involved in what God is already doing, because that is already blessed!