Global conscience

It's time to make a difference.

This is what I've wanted to do for a while -- make a difference. I have long wanted to make a difference through music, and through the way I interact with the people I meet.

The more I learn about people in desperate need around the world (including in the U.S.A.), the more I feel obligated to help -- to make a difference. So many are in desperate need, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. When I came back from Mexico (the first mission trip I ever went on), I felt that the USA was a third world country, spiritually, more so than I felt that the Baja California peninsula of Mexico was poor. Though some Americans are desperately materially poor, millions of Americans live with material riches that are almost unimaginable in many parts of the world.

Our poverty is in our capacity to ignore a needy person and to ignore God (which, according to one famous parable, can sometimes be one and the same) and continue in our mediocre, materially comfortable existence.

I want to stop ignoring those who can be all too easy to temporarily ignore -- God, starving children, those living under violent oppression. I want to break out of my comfortable mediocrity.

Mahler in Gear

Check out this awesome logo for a performance of Mahler's third (I think...) in Barcelona.

http://www.auditori.cat/seccions/programacio/fitxa.aspx?idconcert=461&cicle_id=71

What is church?

What is church? Where do I find it?

Is it a building?

Is it a group of people?

Is it a feeling?

Is it an organization, a structure of decision-makers and decision-followers?

Is it a body?

Is it an idea? A Concept?

And then, what is it like?

Is it bland? Does it have passion? Does it matter? Does it mean anything?

Who speaks for church? Who speaks for God?