not entirely sure what happened... but i may have converted
i went to a concert tonight ... a weird concert for me, because it was a Christian rock concert, and i didn't really know any of the acts or songs really... but it was fun and good times, etc. anyway, so since i'm new to the world of Christian rock concerts it seemed like a good idea just to 'let the Spirit move me' and participate as well as i could.
in the course of the concert there was a speaker that came onstage and was talking about confessing your faith in Christ in the company of others and being saved for it. being the (apparently naive) Catholic that i am (with a few of my youth group kids) we said the prayer with the guy on stage, we raised our hands to show that we confessed our faith, and we stood up when he asked everyone who believed in their prayer to stand up. and i looked around at the rest of the people in the arena, and not everyone else was standing up. all the people i was with were standing, but not a lot of other people. i thought it was strange, because i thought that more people at a Christian music concert would be openly professing their faith.
and then they were telling the people who were standing... the people who had apparently just made a "big decision" ... to fill out a card and give it to some volunteers stationed around the place. i hadn't realized i was making a big decision, and the volunteer who was taking cards near us, kinda looked at us funny because we were standing, but we weren't filling out cards. and i was confused. and i finally realized, because the guy on stage kept talking about our "big decision" and how it meant we had accepted Jesus into our lives... and that's when i figured out... i'd just been converted. i'm not exactly sure what i've converted to... but... yeah.
i didn't realize that people got "saved" at concerts. if that's even what you call it. the idea is very strange because i don't come from that background, so i'm sorry if i haven't used the vocab properly. anyway, i guess i'm also used to professing my faith as part of normal worship, so i didn't know that we weren't all supposed to be "confessing our faith in Christ" in front of everyone else. i guess i shouldn't have assumed that everyone does that.
and that's pretty much what happened tonight. like i said, the concert was pretty good (awkward conversion aside). and now i'm going to bed. =)
in the course of the concert there was a speaker that came onstage and was talking about confessing your faith in Christ in the company of others and being saved for it. being the (apparently naive) Catholic that i am (with a few of my youth group kids) we said the prayer with the guy on stage, we raised our hands to show that we confessed our faith, and we stood up when he asked everyone who believed in their prayer to stand up. and i looked around at the rest of the people in the arena, and not everyone else was standing up. all the people i was with were standing, but not a lot of other people. i thought it was strange, because i thought that more people at a Christian music concert would be openly professing their faith.
and then they were telling the people who were standing... the people who had apparently just made a "big decision" ... to fill out a card and give it to some volunteers stationed around the place. i hadn't realized i was making a big decision, and the volunteer who was taking cards near us, kinda looked at us funny because we were standing, but we weren't filling out cards. and i was confused. and i finally realized, because the guy on stage kept talking about our "big decision" and how it meant we had accepted Jesus into our lives... and that's when i figured out... i'd just been converted. i'm not exactly sure what i've converted to... but... yeah.
i didn't realize that people got "saved" at concerts. if that's even what you call it. the idea is very strange because i don't come from that background, so i'm sorry if i haven't used the vocab properly. anyway, i guess i'm also used to professing my faith as part of normal worship, so i didn't know that we weren't all supposed to be "confessing our faith in Christ" in front of everyone else. i guess i shouldn't have assumed that everyone does that.
and that's pretty much what happened tonight. like i said, the concert was pretty good (awkward conversion aside). and now i'm going to bed. =)