“I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God. It’s almost like religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building.” - Bono

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Any you find interesting or worthy of debate?

I think that if we’re really followers of Christ, we should be a restless bunch. Searchers. Seekers. Explorers. We should always be striving to follow after the wildness of Christ. Are we meant to be stable or stagnant? Hardly. It’s a journey that we’ll never fully arrive on, but one in which we must keep moving. We have to keep moving. Our soul depends on it.

I was working today and listening to the radio (www.pandora.com) and heard an old song by U2 - I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. It really spoke to those restless places in my heart. So how many of you are searchers and seekers? How many are burdened by the feeling that ‘there’s more.’ I love the fact that the Gospel is too big to live in our hearts and constantly forcing us to search and seek and live bigger. Let us not settle. Let us keep exploring.

I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing fingertips
It burned like a fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the eternal angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I believe in the Kingdom Come
When all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes I’m still running

You broke the bonds
And you loosened the chains
Carried the cross
Of all my shame
all my shame
You know I believe it

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

This is a great video piece that cuts together concert footage, Bill Hybels Leadership Summit interview, and Bono’s prayer from the national prayer breakfast.

I’ve always been a fan of Bono and the boys. I own all their albums and I actually liked Pop (I know it’s hard to believe).  What I haven’t liked is the U2 Eucharists many churches have put on where they use U2 music to worship (and attract people) - but, hey, that’s not U2’s fault.

I know many people like to poke holes in Bono’s beliefs, politics, and occasional salty language, but man he’s out there trying to change the world. And he’s’ trying to change the world wearing his Christianity showing on the outside.  How many of us can say we’d done that? How many of us as Christians would rather scrutinize those doing instead of doing it ourselves. That is one of the great sins of Christianity.

[Video link compliments of the coolest preterist with glasses from Ohio that I know - Virgil]

Folks, I wish I was making this up.

“Ushers handed out earplugs and fluorescent glow sticks for the “U2 Eucharist,” a communion service punctuated by the Irish rock band’s music. Episcopal parishes from California to Maine have hosted similar events, weaving U2’s tunes — laced with biblical references — into the liturgy.”

Now, I’m a big fan of U2 and a bigger fan of Christ. My only problem with this is that it’s a whole service focused around U2. Now detractors may say that it’s all in the lyrics. The lyrics glorify God. But I just think that something in all of this gets lost in the translation. The focus is off.

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