The Misfits
Two weeks ago I embarked on a great journey to the mid-west. The guys in my band, one our best friends & I traveled to the much anticipated Cornerstone Festival in Illinois. Cornerstone is a very unique festival that has helped to usher in the rock side of Christian music for a couple decades. This years headliners were: Reliant K, Family Force 5, Red, Emery, Brian "Head" Welch, Anberlin, The Devil Wears Prada, & UnderOath...just to name a few.
There are many many...too many stages at Cornerstone. You can't even begin to consume all of the music surrounding you sometime berating you from 11 am to 1 am the next morning. But as the week wore on and we played shows and enjoyed more music...I began to realize there was much more to Cornerstone than meets the eye.
Here at this 500 acre farm in the middle of nowhere was one of the most unique collections of the Body of Christ I had ever witnessed. There were as many tattoo's & piercings as most biker rallies. There were people there to worship God in many different forms and through many different "styles" of worship. There were some there that were not Christians, and they were being wrapped up by the music and drawn into the presence of God even when that was not their intent.
I was reading the Gospel of Luke a couple of days ago and this scripture reminded me of my experience up in the cornfields of Cornerstone: "Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." Luke 14:12-14
So who are you spending your time with? Those who people would expect you to...or those who need to be shown the love of Christ, the socially unacceptable, the far from God, the misfits?
There are many many...too many stages at Cornerstone. You can't even begin to consume all of the music surrounding you sometime berating you from 11 am to 1 am the next morning. But as the week wore on and we played shows and enjoyed more music...I began to realize there was much more to Cornerstone than meets the eye.
Here at this 500 acre farm in the middle of nowhere was one of the most unique collections of the Body of Christ I had ever witnessed. There were as many tattoo's & piercings as most biker rallies. There were people there to worship God in many different forms and through many different "styles" of worship. There were some there that were not Christians, and they were being wrapped up by the music and drawn into the presence of God even when that was not their intent.
I was reading the Gospel of Luke a couple of days ago and this scripture reminded me of my experience up in the cornfields of Cornerstone: "Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." Luke 14:12-14
So who are you spending your time with? Those who people would expect you to...or those who need to be shown the love of Christ, the socially unacceptable, the far from God, the misfits?
posted by Eddie at 10:41 AM 