Passion Day 2

Today has been FANTASTIC to say the least.

We started the morning in our community groups talking about Ephesians 2:1-10. We talked a lot about how we have to really understand the bad news to understand the magnitude of the Cross and what God did for us.

Beth Moore spoke in the first main session of the day. Matt Redman led worship during this session. God has blessed her with immeasurable amounts of wisdom. She talked about how we are never too unclean for Jesus and He is the only God that isn't afraid of sin. Isn't that amazing?

A woman by the name of Christine Kain spoke at the second main session and Kristian Stanfill led worship. Christine is the pastor at the Hillsong church in Sydney, Australia. He talked to us about Do Something Now, and the twenty-seven million slaves in the world. She is a very passionate woman, and she was amazing. One thing that she said that stuck with me was, "A light isn't fully effective unless it is in the darkness."

Francis Chan spoke in the third main session and Chris Tomlin led worship. We sang one of my favorite songs, "All My Fountains". It was absolutely amazing to sing that with 45,000 people. Another thing we did was sing "How Great is Our God". The neat thing about that is that we had 5 different languages being sung on stage, and the Ugandan Children's Choir was on stage singing. That was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Anyways, I love Francis. He just preaches the Word the way it is. Doesn't try to interpret it. He told us to read God's Word and take it literally. His message was just begging us to get into the Word, which I loved. I feel like that is how God speaks to me. I also feel like we all crave God's Word. We are missing something, and His Word is the only thing that can satisfy us. Francis said a lot of stuff that I just love, and I would encourage all of you to watch it at the passion website. www.268generation.com/passion I believe. If that isn't it, just google passion 2012. At the end of this session Louie decided to tell us how much money we have already donated. Just to let you know, we could only donate today so far. We have already donated $550,000. Not even everyone donated today. God definitely has His Hand in this.

After that session we went to community groups. My family group consists of 9 people, and today we became family. We know more about each other after 24 hours than most people know about us. I think that is amazing.

We ended the day with a Hillsong concert. Once again, didn't stay the whole time, but stayed for a few songs.

God is speaking to our generation, and is stirring up something in us. We will rise up.