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]

This is a great post from Steve Taylor, down-under: 7 things I learnt from Bono about worhsip leading. You’ll have to go there to get the details, but here are the seven things:

1. Connect uniquely.

2. Engage through familiarity.

3. Use repetitition to call forth prayer.

4. Secure a 5th (visual) band member.

5. Create hope by drawing the best from the past.

6. Plan participation.

7. Invoke passionate practices.

While I am on worship, the latest Worship Development Team “DI Magazine” is now on-line. Spot the famous contributor!?!?

This is a great post from Steve Taylor, down-under: 7 things I learnt from Bono about worhsip leading. You’ll have to go there to get the details, but here are the seven things:

1. Connect uniquely.

2. Engage through familiarity.

3. Use repetitition to call forth prayer.

4. Secure a 5th (visual) band member.

5. Create hope by drawing the best from the past.

6. Plan participation.

7. Invoke passionate practices.

While I am on worship, the latest Worship Development Team “DI Magazine” is now on-line. Spot the famous contributor!?!?

Prophetic Imagination

“The prophet engages in future fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented… The imagination must come before the implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing…. Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep conjuring and proposing alternative futures.”

Prophetic Imagination

“The prophet engages in future fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented… The imagination must come before the implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing…. Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep conjuring and proposing alternative futures.”