We had a great time with Shane, Chris the Psalters and Jon Brooks on the only Canadian stop of the Jesus for Prime Minister tour, just one day before Canada Day.
Despite some delays at the Border, some questions as to whether the bus was really powered by veggie oil (and was not, instead, a travelling meth lab), they made it for an incredible, packed evening at Church of the Redeemer in the heart of downtown Toronto.
“What are 400 people doing,” more than a few passers-by asked, “crowded on the front steps of a church in the heart of Yorkville?” It was quite the scene, to be sure!
We were there to listen to stories. We were there to listen to the story of the scriptures, and stories of living those stories out in 21st Century North America. We were there not only to listen, but to be inspired.
The spirit’s breath was with us, as we were challenged to think of Christians’ role in effecting change in this world. Faith means nothing without faithful living, and we were challenged to respond faithfully to the story of the scriptures, and God’s call on our lives to seek others’ welfare before we seek our own.
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The following links contain information from our past events:
February 2009 :: Martyn Joseph in Concert
November 2008 :: The Ordinary Radicals
June 2008 :: Jesus for Prime Minister
May 2008 :: Romans Disarmed
November 2007 :: Shock & Awe
May 2007 :: Ghost Stories
May 2006 :: Wright Remixed
How do I find tickets? Where? How much per person?
I find the notion of Jesus for president or prime minister deeply disturbing.
Why?
Which and whose version of Jesus?
The Jesus of Calvin as dramatised in his theocratic mini-state in Geneva, in which FEAR was the order of the day—and copious executions too
Are not Claiborne and friends just another group of sinners, and hence full of the usual double-mindedness that ALL sinners display, despite and contrary to their seeming best intentions.
And like all sinners they have a hell-deep unexamined shadow which in one way or another influences everything that they do.
Everything—no exceptions.