Doors to the show open at 7:00, it costs $8 to get in. That is a steal on the quality of the show. It will be a great night. Hope to see you there.
I plan on going after youth gets out. It will completely be worth going. I'll probably miss a little bit of the opening parts of the night, as youth usually goes til 7:00. But I'll be there in time for Robbie for sure, and hopefully for Joel too. He's a great guy.
Okay, so apparently there is a vote going on in oklahoma for the official oklahoma state rock song. I'm having nightmares that it's going to be some crap by vince gill. PLEASE GO VOTE! http://www.oklahomarocksong.org/ if you want a 150% biased opinion, go vote for flaming lips. p.s. if mercy me wins, and "i can only imagine" becomes our official state song, i'm moving. texas, washington (despite all the flak i'd take in seattle), oregon, maine, i don't care. if that song wins, i'm getting the heck out of town. i'll probably do the same thing if hinder wins too. PLEASE GO VOTE FOR SOMEONE!
Okay, so a couple of weeks ago, my buddy Steve & I hear that there is this crazy guy on campus up at school, so of course we have to go and see him. His picture is here, just go you can get an idea of what we walked into. The special part of it is that his board flipped around to say different things, but you get the basic gist from what is on there now. Basically, the idea that "God is angry with us every day." Now, he said his story was that God called him to what he called "confrontational preaching." Basically, his thing was that God told him to go to college campuses and tell everyone why they're going to hell. It was really encouraging.
He was pretty much into telling everyone why they're wrong. I know that sounds like a blanket statement, but that's really how it was. He talked to a Catholic, and was only too happy to point out that he had been raised Catholic, but fortunately god had redeemed him of his sinful ways, because praying to Mary was the fast lane to hell. What surprised me was that there were people actually trying to have an honest conversation with him. If anything was a positive in this whole thing, it was that. No one really listened to him, but the Christians that were there were having an intelligent discussion about it. Probably the only positive to the day. But, in the grand scheme of it all, even the good discussion happening, it was getting drowned out by all the other people complaining about his presence on campus.
There were a couple of people that would just be antagonistic for the sake of being antagonistic, one guy said he was there to "watch this guy get his butt kicked" which never happened. Still others were there to pass out cigarettes because mr. sign guy was shouting about the sin of smoking among everything else. Oh, and being greek is like buddying up with Satan himself apparently. While the whole greek thing wasn't my speed, I know lots of people who did go greek, and they don't look anything like Satan. In fact, a lot of them remind me a lot of what I think Jesus would look like.
In the end, I had to leave, because the whole thing just got to be too much for me. I get pretty mad when this kind of thing comes along. These guys are all about themselves, and making sure everyone knows how holy they are, and how unholy everyone else is. It completely misses the point. So, I kindly thanked him for making my job harder, which I'm pretty sure he didn't hear. I tried to join the constructive conversations, but they were mostly with people I didn't know. Steve told me later that he went up and asked to have a discussion about the whole thing of this guy's hostility, and he looked Steve in the eye and said "I don't have time for you," and went back to shouting.
Why these guys come along and make those of us trying to actually point people to Jesus look like morons frustrates me to no end. Kind of like this group too.
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